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Study for "Antiochus and Stratonice"
About the Artwork
Struck by a mysterious illness, Antiochus lies in bed near death. His grieving father, who has recently taken Stratonice as his wife, summons a doctor. Noticing that the sight of the young woman quickens Antiochus’s pulse and that passion causes his sickness, the doctor describes the youth’s predicament to his father, who selflessly offers Stratonice to his son. The subject, both a love story and an example of parental devotion, enjoyed considerable popularity well into the 1800s.
Provenance
Jacques de Caso (Berkeley, California), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pompeo Batoni (Italian, 1708–1787)
- Date
- c. 1746
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 33.3 x 39.5 x 5.4 cm (13 1/8 x 15 9/16 x 2 1/8 in.); Unframed: 24.2 x 30.5 cm (9 1/2 x 12 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of Jacques de Caso in memory of Alice Cagliostro and Domenick Cagliostro
- Accession no.
- 2008.69
More by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00010242
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