Cambyse and Psammenite, after Guignet
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Cambyse and Psammenite. Meeting between Cambyse II, Rouenid king of the Persian Empire from 529 to 522 BC
Engraver: Adolphe Pierre Riffaut (1821-1859)
Artist: after Jean-Adrien Guignet (Annecy, 1816 - Paris, 1854).
Provenance: L’Artiste.
Production date: circa 1840.
Description: Subject borrowed from Egyptian history and illustrating the moment when Egypt became a province of the Persian Empire. Psammetichus III or Psanemite for the Greeks, last pharaoh of the 26th dynasty of the so-called Saite period, was defeated and captured at Pelusium by Cambyses II. Psammenite remains motionless, in the middle of the pyramids of Ghiseh in front of the Persians who are taking her son to execution, her daughter who, having become a servant, goes to draw water with a jug in her hand and the Egyptians who are lamenting. (Source: Louvre Museum, paintings department)
Size: 29x23 cms.
Condition: good.
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Cambyse and Psammenite. Meeting between Cambyse II, Rouenid king of the Persian Empire from 529 to 522 BC
Engraver: Adolphe Pierre Riffaut (1821-1859)
Artist: after Jean-Adrien Guignet (Annecy, 1816 - Paris, 1854).
Provenance: L’Artiste.
Production date: circa 1840.
Description: Subject borrowed from Egyptian history and illustrating the moment when Egypt became a province of the Persian Empire. Psammetichus III or Psanemite for the Greeks, last pharaoh of the 26th dynasty of the so-called Saite period, was defeated and captured at Pelusium by Cambyses II. Psammenite remains motionless, in the middle of the pyramids of Ghiseh in front of the Persians who are taking her son to execution, her daughter who, having become a servant, goes to draw water with a jug in her hand and the Egyptians who are lamenting. (Source: Louvre Museum, paintings department)
Size: 29x23 cms.
Condition: good.