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Claudius Proclaimed Emperor

painting by Charles Lebayle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ60388688 ↗
Source-derived summary

Claudius Proclaimed Emperor is an oil on canvas painting by Charles Lebayle, now in the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, in Paris.

The subject set for the Prix de Rome in 1886 was the event of the proclamation of Claudius as emperor in 41 CE as described in Suetonius's Lives of the Caesars (Claudius, 10). Lebayle won his category with the work, gaining him a two-year stay at the Villa Medici in Rome.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Claudius Proclaimed Emperor” is painting by Charles Lebayle. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Claudius, Proclaimed and Emperor, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1886—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Claudius, Proclaimed and Emperor is the immediate research focus.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q60388688. The first chronological checks are 1886.

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This entry incorporates text from “Claudius Proclaimed Emperor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.