Tu Marcellus Eris
- Artist
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Date
- 1811 - 1820
- Style
- Neoclassicism
- Genre
- Genre painting
- Location
- Musée des Augustins
"Tu Marcellus Eris" is a 1812 Neoclassicism painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. This genre painting is an oil on canvas piece, measuring 304 x 323 cm, housed in the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse. It narrates the emotional moment when Virgil, reciting his Aeneid to Augustus, Livia, and Octavia, mentions Octavia's deceased son, Marcellus, causing her to faint. Marcus Agrippa and Gaius Maecenas are present in the painting overseeing this dramatic event. This art piece illustrates a poignant story from the late fourth-century vita of Virgil by Aelius Donatus.
Related artworks
- Red and green horses in a stable by David Burliuk
- Elijah Destroys the Messengers of Ahaziah by Gustave Dore
- View of Constantinople by evening light by Ivan Aivazovsky
- Vaugirard church by Paul Gauguin
- The Annunciation by Sandro Botticelli
- Cain and Abel by Marc Chagall
- Polyptych Albani Torlonia by Pietro Perugino
- Illustration to Milton`s Paradise Lost by William Blake
- St. Dorothea by Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Path at Estaque by Georges Braque