Lot Details
Lot 68
Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl
Austrian, 1860-1933
The Death of Germanicus
Signed Hirschl (lr)
Oil on canvas
31 × 54 1/4 inches (78.8 × 137.8 cm)
Provenance:
Private collection, Vienna, until 1984
Professor Edward Maser, University of Chicago
Private collection, Chicago, from 1986
The Roman general Germanicus (Germanicus Julius Caesar), governor of the Eastern Empire, died at Antioch in 19 AD, reportedly poisoned by his jealous adoptive father, the Emperor Tiberius. In this scene he is mourned by his officers and his wife, Agrippina (seated beside the bed), granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus. The young mourners at the foot of the bed are probably his son Gaius, later the Emperor Caligula, and his daughter Julia Drusilla.
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