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- Title:
- Paetus and Arria
- Former Title(s):
Non Dolet, Paetus and Arria
Non Dolet: Die Geschichte von Paetus und Arria
Non Dolet- Paetus and Arria- Date:
- 1766
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 36 x 28 inches (91.4 x 71.1 cm), Frame: 42 1/2 × 34 5/8 × 2 5/8 inches (108 × 87.9 × 6.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black paint, lower left and right; on left: "B. West 1766"; on right: "B. West pinxit 1767"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.114
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1977.14.114FR
- Subject Terms:
- bust | chair | costume | curtain | dagger | death | emperor | gesture | historical subject | husband | interior | man | scroll (information artifact) | sculpture | suicide | table | wife | woman
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:451
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