

| Date : 1787
Material : Oil on canvas Acquisition : (1931)
| Item 3 on 23 French Painting Painting
Area related Paris (France) Site related : David et ses élèves
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The printmaker and publisher John Boydell wrote to Sir Joshua Reynolds that "it was the greatest effort of art science since the Sistine Chapel and the stanze of Raphael ... This work would have done honour to Athens at the time of Pericles".
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