The death of Cleopatra, Maria SZANTHO, 1928

Oil on panel representing "The Death of Cleopatra" Signed lower right Maria SZANTHO, dated 1928. Hungarian school. Former pianist, she launched an artistic career under the tutelage of Kukan GEZA. Her favorite subjects quickly became female nudes. In 1924, she exhibited her paintings at the Mucsarnok Salon in Budapest, where critics recognized her original style after having been influenced by painters like Lotz and Benczur. The episode painted here relates the death that the queen of Egypt gave herself in August of the year 30 BC, by being bitten by an asp, after the news of the defeat of her troops against those of Octavian, future emperor of Rome. Original frame (116x90), as well as canvas and stretcher. Plan for cleaning.