- Title:
Cleopatra
- Date:
- between 1674 and 1675
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- Support (PTG): 49 x 41 1/2 inches (124.5 x 105.4 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2004.1
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B2004.1FR
- Subject Terms:
- bed | bracelet (jewelry) | costume | curtains | historical subject | jewelry | nude | portrait | suicide | woman
- Associated Places:
- Africa | Egypt
- Associated People:
- Cleopatra VII Philopator (late 69 BC–30 BC), last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:53751
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
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