Cleopatra and Caesar

Cleopatra VII Philopator (Late 69 BC – August 12, 30 BC)

Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904). Title: Cleopatra and Caesar. Date: 1866.

Notes: Cleopatra Before Caesar by Jean-Léon Gérôme, oil on canvas, 1866. Cleopatra confronts Gaius Julius Caesar after emerging from a roll of carpet. The Egyptian Queen had been driven from the palace in Alexandria by her brother / husband Ptolemy XIII. She had to disguise herself, rolled in a carpet, to regain entry and treat with Caesar for protection and restoration of her throne.

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