A Glass of Wine with Caesar Borgia
Painting by John Collier
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A Glass of Wine with Caesar Borgia is a history painting of 1893 by the British history painter John Collier.[1] It depicts a scene featuring members of the House of Borgia around 1500, during Renaissance Italy. Cesare Borgia is shown offering a glass of wine to a man, perhaps hinted to contain poison, while seated next to his father Pope Alexander VI with a watchful Lucrezia Borgia, his sister, just behind him.[2]
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| Artist | John Collier |
| Year | 1893 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, history painting |
| Dimensions | 140 cm × 240 cm (55 in × 94 in) |
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The painting was shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1893 held at Burlington House in London.[3] Today it is in the collection of Ipswich Museum having been acquired as part of the Felix Cobbold Bequest.[4]
