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The Death of Calanus
Jacques-Antoine Beaufort
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02-06-2026
Jacques-Antoine Beaufort

Paris (France), 1721 - Rueil (France), 1784

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The Death of Calanus

1779. Oil on panel.
Not on display

This panel depicts an episode from the life of Alexander the Great, at the end of his Indian campaign. The Indian philosopher Calanus, before his funeral pyre and sensing his imminent death, invites Alexander to meet him in Babylon in three months´ time, thus prophesying the Emperor´s death. This was a preparatory sketch for a major canvas, now destroyed, commissioned by King Louis XVI.

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Inventory number
P006073
Author
Jacques-Antoine Beaufort
Title
The Death of Calanus
Date
1779
Technique
Oil
Support
Panel
Dimension
Width: 20 cm; Height: 22 cm
Provenance
Cheramy Collection; acquired for the Prado Museum, 1980.
Entry date
1980

Bibliography +

Luna, Juan José, Un boceto de Beaufort para 'La muerte de Calanus' en el Museo del Prado, Boletín del Museo del Prado, II, 1981, pp. 163-166.

Museo Nacional del Prado, Museo del Prado: adquisiciones de 1978 a 1981, Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, 1981.

Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de las pinturas, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1985, pp. 48.

Museo Nacional del Prado, Museo del Prado: catálogo de las pinturas, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Madrid, 1996, pp. 23.

Museo Nacional del Prado, Museo del Prado: inventario general de pinturas. Nuevas Adquisiciones. Museo Iconográfico. Tapices, III, Museo del Prado, Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1996.

Luna, Juan José, Guerra y pintura en las colecciones del Museo del Prado. Siglo XVI a Goya, Arte en tiempos de guerra, Jornadas de Arte, Madrid, 2009.

Other inventories +

Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 1957.
Jacques-Antoine Beaufort. 1957 / La muerte de Calanus / Tabla. 0,215 x 0,19 / Cat nº 6073 / Adquirido en 1980

Catálogo Museo del Prado, 1985. Núm. 6073.

Update date: 02-06-2026 | Registry created on 28-04-2015

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