Jacques-Louis David · 1781
Belisarius Begging for Alms
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The blinded Roman general Belisarius sits at a stone block marked with an obol inscription, embracing a boy, while a woman gives him alms and a soldier at the left raises his hands in recognition. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.
Up to 9.1 × 8 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
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Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
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Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Belisarius Begging for Alms
David exhibited this large canvas (288 by 312 cm) at the Salon of 1781, after returning from Italy, and it was a great success. The Byzantine general Belisarius, victor over the Vandals in AD 533-534, was by an apocryphal account later blinded by the emperor Justinian and reduced to begging. It is now in the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille; a second, reduced version shown at the Salon of 1785 is in the Louvre.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity, severity, and heightened feeling, which harmonized with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime.
All Jacques-Louis David prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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