Cleopatra Meets Caesar Carpet

Cleopatra and caesar french.

Cleopatra meets caesar carpet.

Cléopâtre et césar also known as cleopatra before caesar is an oil on canvas painting by the french academic artist jean léon gérôme completed in 1866 the work was originally commissioned by the french courtesan la païva but she was unhappy with the finished painting and returned it to gérôme it was exhibited at the salon of 1866 and the royal. Then cleopatra revealed herself and explained her situation to the dictator. In 48 bc the resourceful cleopatra forbidden by her brother ptolemy xiii to meet with the roman general had herself wrapped in a carpet or according to some historians a linen sack and smuggled into caesar s quarters. As outlined in amy crawford s smithsonian article it is often said that cleopatra came up with a scheme to sneak herself into the palace where caesar was staying by hiding inside a rolled up carpet.

After wrapping her up her servant apollodoros presented the carpet to caesar. A decree in demotic a shorthand version of hieroglyphs was set up in the serapeum at saqqara and his lineage proclaimed on monuments across egypt including a famous scene in the temple of dendera caesar seems to have been very proud that he had finally had a son.