Delacroix The Death of Sardanapalus

Sardanapalus is an oil painting completed in 1827 by Eugene Delacroix. It is in the Louvre. Its focus is a large bed on which a nude is prostrating herself and is asking the apathetic Sardanapalus for mercy. He had ordered his possessions destroyed and sex slaves murdered before immolating himself, once he learned that he was faced with military defeat. The painting is based on the tale of Sardanapalus, the last king of Assyria.

The painting is full of movement, emotion, and a little bit too much stuff.