King Candaules

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1859, Museo de Arte de Ponce

‘King Candaules’ is a work by Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824–1904). It is dated 1859. It is part of the collection Museo de Arte de Ponce. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

It is made of oil paint and canvas. It measures 67 × 99 cm. The work belongs to the genres mythological painting and nude. The things depicted include Candaules, Gyges of Lydia, Nyssia, and candaulism.