Amable Paul Coutan
Themistocles at the Court of Admetus
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Amable Paul Coutan
Paris 1792 - 1837
Themistocles at the Court of Admetus
signed and dated lower right: Coutan. 1819
oil on canvas
unframed: 22.5 x 27.3 cm.; 8 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.
framed: 34.3 x 40 cm.; 13 3/4 x 15 7/8 in.
'Themistocle at the court of Admetus' was the subject of the Prix de Rome in 1819: as narrated by Diodorus and Plutarch, the Athenian general Themistocles fled to the court of Admetus, King of Molossia, after being exiled from his own city. The choice of obscure historical subjects was common at the competition. The present work is a sketch for the final version, now at the Museum of Bourges.1
1 P. Grunchec, Le grand prix de peinture. Le concours des Prix de Rome de 1797 à 1863, Paris 1983, p. 169, reproduced pl. 2.