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Römische Historische Mitteilungen 65/2023
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Römische Historische Mitteilungen 65/2023, pp. 435-452, 2024/05/01
The article presents a painting that passed at auction in 2018 as an unknown work of the 18th and/or 19th century. It is the painting Hercules Frees Prometheus, which is a new work in the reconstruction of secular thematic painting by the French artist Pierre Subleyras, who was active in Rome between 1728 and 1749. The attri-bution is corroborated by the painting‘s mention in a life of Subleyras published in 1786 and its inclusion in the artist‘s famous Atelier preserved at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In closing, hypotheses about the painting‘s function in the context of what Stephen Greenblatt (1980) had called the artist‘s ‘self-fashioning‘ are added.