卡米拉之死 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	卡米拉之死
品名（英）	The Death of Camilla
入馆年号	1998年，1998.203
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Jacques Louis David【1748 至 1825】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1776 - 公元 1786
创作地区
分类	图画（Drawings）
尺寸	14 7/16 x 15 9/16 英寸 (36.7 x 39.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	在绘制他的新古典主义杰作《霍拉蒂的誓言》（巴黎卢浮宫博物馆）之前，大卫用草图探索了故事的许多情节。在这张表中，大卫描绘了古罗马和奥尔本部落之间的战斗后卡米拉的死亡。为了挽救生命，每个部落都委派了三名战士来解决争端。这场比赛的唯一幸存者霍拉提乌斯（Horatius）已经回来寻找他的妹妹卡米拉（Camilla），她为自己被杀害的未婚夫（Curiatii家族成员）而悲伤。在对她表现出的不爱国情绪的愤怒中，霍拉提乌斯当场杀死了她尽管大卫最终选择了故事的更早和不那么令人讨厌的时刻，但他在最后的绘画版本中延续了用女性表达悲伤作为男性勇敢和爱国行为的对比的想法。爱与责任的对立主题对大卫有着强烈的吸引力，并将在18世纪末的政治动荡中获得共鸣。
介绍（英）	Before painting his Neoclassical masterpiece The Oath of the Horatii (Musée du Louvre, Paris), David explored many episodes of the story in sketches. In this sheet, David portrays the death of Camilla in the aftermath of the battle between the ancient Roman and Alban tribes. To spare lives, each tribe had delegated three warriors to settle the dispute. The lone survivor of the contest, Horatius, has returned to find his sister, Camilla, grieving for her slain fiancé, a member of the Curiatii clan. In his anger over her unpatriotic display of emotion, Horatius kills her on the spot. Although he would ultimately choose an earlier and less unsavory moment of the story, David carried over into the final painted version the idea of using the female expression of grief as a counterpoint to male acts of bravery and patriotism. Themes of love and duty opposed held a strong attraction for David and would gain resonance during the political turmoil of the late eighteenth century.