Watercolor Of The Funerary Monument Of The Horatii

Watercolor on paper with description and date in ink on the back: "a sepulchral building near Albano, commenly called the tomb of the Horatii & Curatii 1795". with a contemporary gilded frame.
The so-called tomb of the Horatii and Curiati dates from the late Roman Republican period, located at the fifteenth kilometer of the Appian Way, Alba Longa, Albano, Italy. It is built as a rectangular base with four rounded cones at the corners and a fifth, larger cone in the center. It is not known for whom the monument was originally intended. The source of this tradition is the Roman historian Livius, who recounts how the three Horatii brothers triumphed over their adversaries in a bloody confrontation and thus acquired Rome's hegemony over Alba Longa. This story has been painted many times, of which David's Oath of the Horatii is one of the most famous examples.