Dido has told her sister Anna of the conflict between her passion for Aeneas and her loyalty to the memory of her dead husband. Anna persuades her to keep Aeneas in Carthage, and together they propitiate the gods by making sacrifices. Dido pours a libation while her servants prepare to slay a heifer in order to consult its entrails.
Details
- Artist Name: Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Italian, 1612-1662)
- Title: Dido Sacrifices to Juno
- Date: c. 1646
- Medium: Gouache and black chalk on paper, laid down on canvas
- Dimensions: 110-3/8 x 164-3/8 in. (280.3 x 417.5 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
- Accession Number: M.1969.26.1.P
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation
Object Information
Rt. Hon. the Earl of Poulett, Hinton St. George, Somerset, by at least 1828 (London, Sotheby’s, 26 March 1969, lot 6);
[R. M. Light and Co., Boston];
The Norton Simon Art Foundation.
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