Antiochus and Stratonice

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's 'Antiochus and Stratonice' (1840) depicts the ancient story in which the royal physician Erasistratus diagnoses the young prince Antiochus's wasting illness as lovesickness for his stepmother, Stratonice. The episode, a gift of moral restraint from his father King Seleucus, was a favourite subject of Neoclassical painting. Ingres refined his composition across several decades; the small oil on linen in the Cleveland Museum of Art is a late autograph replica.

Exhibition Venue

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States