An Episode From The History Of The Gauls, G.moreau De Tours, 1877

According to Tite-Live, the Celts inhabiting Gaul began to migrate east during the 6th century BC. JC. Ambigatos, king of Bituriges would have sent Segovesos and Bellovesos who began the Gaul raids in Italy, and brought by successive migrations their installation in the plain of Po. In 390, they took Rome and did not stop threatening the powerful republic until after fierce struggles, which ended in 191 with the reduction of Cisalpine Gaul in the Roman province. After the death of Alexander the Great, bands of Gauls invaded Greece, then Asia Minor, and even founded a state there: Galatia. Strabo notes: "At the slightest excitement, they run in combat, but that openly and without any circumspection, so that cunning and military skill easily overcome their efforts". Here, one can believe in the plundering of the temple of Delphi, but the descriptions of Justin (book 24), Diodorus of Sicily, and Pausanias, affirm that they did not manage to penetrate into the sacred enclosure. Oil on canvas signed Georges Moreau de Tours (1848-1904), dated 1877. Coming from an illustrious family, he entered the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1865 where he became a pupil of Cabanel, and of Marquerie. the universal expo of 1889. Museums: Bayeux, Le Mans, Mulhouse, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Rochefort, Saint-Brieuc, Saintes, Tours, Trieste, Evreux, Quimper, Laval. re-covering, old restorations, wear and tarring in the dark parts (as often at the time)