Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners, painted by Alexandre Cabanel in 1887, was part of the academic movement.
With themes of femme fatale, foreshadowing, karma, decadence, authority, power, perversion, moral decay, self destruction, seduction, death, and symbolism of snake, ouroborous, vulture.
Artwork painted on oil on canvas, in 19th Century France.
France