# Charikleia and Theagenes

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BLOEMAERT, Abraham](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloemaert-abraham-rcb490160a07500-rcb490160a07500>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 95 x 118 cm

## Commentary

This rare subject was taken from the Aethiopica, a Greek novel of A.D. 240 written by a Phoenician, Heliodorus, and devoted to an Ethiopian adventure that takes place in the Nile Delta. Attacked by pirates \(at the upper right\), the heroine, the Grecian maiden Charikleia, kneels over her wounded mate Theagenes. In realizing the figures, Bloemaert followed Venetian models, but the landscape style and sophisticated colours are his own.

## Related artworks

- [A Cottage \(recto\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloemaert-abraham-rcb490160a07500-rcb490160a07500/a-cottage-recto-rce33126f7e0523>)
- [Adoration of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloemaert-abraham-rcb490160a07500-rcb490160a07500/adoration-of-the-magi-rb4c84404373107>)
- [Adoration of the Shepherds](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloemaert-abraham-rcb490160a07500-rcb490160a07500/adoration-of-the-shepherds-r0233f92cdc5a5c>)
- [Adoration of the Shepherds](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloemaert-abraham-rcb490160a07500-rcb490160a07500/adoration-of-the-shepherds-ra2fff31576a314>)
- [Allegory of Winter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloemaert-abraham-rcb490160a07500-rcb490160a07500/allegory-of-winter-r7f22375e4eada8>)
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- [Farmyard](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloemaert-abraham-rcb490160a07500-rcb490160a07500/farmyard-r3b5111bcdb8d71>)
- [Farmyard with Dovecote](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloemaert-abraham-rcb490160a07500-rcb490160a07500/farmyard-with-dovecote-r5647939367b815>)
- [Huntsman with Dogs](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloemaert-abraham-rcb490160a07500-rcb490160a07500/huntsman-with-dogs-rac6035b626e967>)
- [Landscape with Peasants Resting](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloemaert-abraham-rcb490160a07500-rcb490160a07500/landscape-with-peasants-resting-rb2d3cdab9b8fac>)
- [Landscape with the Parable of the Tares among the Wheat](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloemaert-abraham-rcb490160a07500-rcb490160a07500/landscape-with-the-parable-of-the-tares-among-the-wheat-r5ab5b437c58350>)
- [Landscape with the Prophet Elijah in the Desert](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloemaert-abraham-rcb490160a07500-rcb490160a07500/landscape-with-the-prophet-elijah-in-the-desert-r15ae38ca462445>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)