Remorse (painting)
painting by Louis-Marie Baader
Remorse (French: Le Remords) is an oil on canvas painting by Louis-Marie Baader. It is a very large canvas, 376 cm (148 in) high and 295 cm (116 in) wide. It was first exhibited at the Salon of 1875 and was purchased by the state from the artist.
Subject
The painting depicts an episode from Greek mythology. Orestes avenges the murder of his father Agamemnon by his mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus by killing them both. In the moment captured in the painting, Orestes looks down in horror at the bodies of the couple he has just murdered, while around him crowd the Erinyes. By painting both Orestes and Clytemnestra nude, Baader demonstrated his mastery of anatomy to the Academy and appealed to the public at the Salon, who were fond of sensual nudity.
History
When first purchased, the painting was displayed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Dole. It remained there until 1980, when it was assigned to the Louvre and then placed in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay. It was not placed on display there however due to its extremely poor condition.
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