Ge, nikolay. Death of virginia. 1857. Sketch for an unrealized painting. 1857-1858. Oil on canvas. 43 x 57. The artist took the plot from the history of ancient rome. Decemvir appius claudius, one of the college of ten legislators, was inflamed with a secret passion for the daughter of a respected centurion. He planned to take possession of her by cunning and conspired with one of those who depended on him that he would claim that this girl had previously been a slave and bring the accused to appius, who would pass a sentence in favor of his accomplice. But before she was taken away, virginia's father appeared, grabbed a knife in the butcher's shop and stabbed her. Sketch for an unrealized painting. Entered the state russian museum in 1918 from the collection of ya. E. Zhukovsky. Date: 1857.
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