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Commodus, (painting). Artist:  Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, painter. Title:  Commodus, (painting). Other Titles:  Emperor Commodus, Son of Marcus Aurelius (Dressed as Hercules), Leaving the Arena at the Head of the Gladiators, (painting). Dates:  1878. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  44 1/2 x 91 in. Subject:  History -- Ancient -- Rome Occupation -- Military -- Gladiator Portrait male -- Commodus, -- Full length Architecture -- Classical Figure group Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Hermitage Foundation Museum, Norfolk, Virginia 23505 Exhibitions:  Paris Salon of 1878, Paris, 1878. Remarks:  Exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1878 as "L'empereur Commode, en Hercule, quitte l'amphi-theatre a la tete des gladiateurs." References:  "Americans in Paris, 1850-1910: the acadamy, the salon, the studio, and the artist's colony," Oklahoma City: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2003, no. 6. Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pg. 164. Weiner, Mina Rieur, ed., "Edwin Howland Blashfield: Master American Muralist," New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 2009, pg. 56. Illustration:  Image on file. Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, fig. 60. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 88690010   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 88690010 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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