L'Intervention des Sabines

Quote from Göbel, op. cit. «Auf François-André Vincent (Salon 1781) gehen der zwölfte, >die Frauen trennen die kämpfenden Römer und Sabiner< (H. L.3 Cozette, 1801-1809, sächsischer Staatsbesitz) […] zurück«. The Rape of the Sabine Women depicts how, during the reign of Romulus, the legendary first king of Rome (753-716 BC), the Romans, lacking women in Rome, stole the daughters of their Sabine neighbours and made them their wives while participating in the Consualia. However, the scene in the tapestry does not depict the robbery, but the courageous Sabine women who brought peace to the ensuing war between their Roman husbands and their Sabine fathers and fellow tribesmen (Kowalewski 2002). With this draft, Vincent is said to have been ahead of his competitor Jacque-Louis David (1748-1825) and his monumental painting of 3.85 metres high x 5.22 metres created in 1799 under the French title ‘Les Sabines’.

Exact measurement unknown, (based on the measurement of the tapestry “La Comdandation d'Aman” on the south wall) 3.12 x 4.81 m according to Gardemeubles inventory 1810 and 1851