In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Struck by a mysterious illness, Antiochus lies in bed near death. His grieving father, who has recently taken Stratonice as his wife, summons a doctor. Noticing that the sight of the young woman quickens Antiochus’s pulse and that passion causes his sickness, the doctor describes the youth’s predicament to his father, who selflessly offers Stratonice to his son. The subject, both a love story and an example of parental devotion, enjoyed considerable popularity well into the 1800s.
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Jan Steen — Jacob Confronting Laban
Stefano Pozzi — Antiochus Yearning for Stratonice
Jan van Noordt (1623-1676) — The continence of Scipio
François Boucher — Death of Meleager
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Italian, 1675–1741) — The Conti
Gerard de Lairesse — Antiochus and Stratonice
Sebastiano Ricci — The Continence of Scipio
Gerard Hoet — The Death of Cleopatra
Louis Moritz — The Mortally wounded Mark Anthony with Cleopa
Isaac Walraven — Het sterfbed van Epaminondas
Gerard de Lairesse — Cleopatra’s Banquet
Jacques-Antoine Beaufort — The Oath of Brutus
