Brennus and His Share of the Spoils

Brennus and His Share of the Spoils
Artist	Paul Jamin
Year	1893
Type	Oil on canvas, history painting
Dimensions	162 cm× 118 cm(64 in× 46 in)
Location	Private collection

Brennus and His Share of the Spoils (French: Le Brenn et sa part de butin) is an 1893 history painting by the French artist Paul Jamin. ^[1] It depicts a scene from the Sack of Rome in 390 BC by Gaulish forces led by Brennus. Having defeated the Roman Army, Brennus now prepares to seize his share of the city's plunder including captive woman some of them bound. Nearby them are jewels, fine fabrics, chests of gold and the severed heads of the defeated forces. ^[2] Painted in the Academic Style, it features an image of French triumph regarded as Revanchist in the context of the nation's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War twenty years earlier by celebrating an ancient victory ^[3]

References

1. Parker p.331-32
2. Vaughn p.32-33
3. Thomson p.59

Bibliography

• Kneale, Matthew. Rome: A History in Seven Sackings. Simon and Schuster, 2019.
• Parker, Shalon Detrice . A Tradition Gone Awry: The Salon Nude in Fin-de-siècle France. University of California, Berkeley, 2003.
• Thomson, Richard. The Troubled Republic: Visual Culture and Social Debate in France, 1889-1900. Yale University Press, 2004.
• Vaughn, Bill. Hawthorn: The Tree That Has Nourished, Healed, and Inspired Through the Ages. Yale University Press, 2015.