The Suicide of Cato is a 1641 oil on canvas painting, now in the Palazzo Rosso in Genoa. [1]
The Suicide of Cato is a 1641 oil on canvas painting, now in the Palazzo Rosso in Genoa. [1]
Showing Cato the Younger, it was commissioned by Marcantonio Eugenio, a lawyer from Perugia active in Rome. [1] A note in the painter's payment book refers to a sum equivalent to 15 scudi paid to him for the work on 22 November 1640, with the balance settled on 7 December 1641 with 45 scudi. [2] It was a pendant to a now lost Death of Seneca, also valued at 60 scudi and also received by Eugenio in 1643 - that subject was popular in Guercino's oeuvre and he produced another version for cardinal Antonio Barberini for 75 scudi. [1] The Suicide of Cato appeared in 18th century inventories of the Brignole collection until being donated to the city by Maria Brignole Sale, the last surviving member of that family. [1]
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