Cincinnatus recevant les ambassadeurs chargés de lui porter les insignes de la dictature

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Artist: Alexandre Cabanel
Date: 1844
Location: Musée Fabre

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Alexandre Cabanel

Alexandre Cabanel, Napoleon III's favored painter, masterfully captured classical and mythological subjects like his iconic "The Birth of Venus."

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