Benjamin CONSTANT (Paris 1845 - 1902) The Death of Astyanax Original canvas Signed and dated lower right "Benj Constant 1868". 115 x 146 cm Provenance : Anonymous sale, Pontoise, (Mes Martinot, Savignat, Antoine) December 15, 2001, n°153bis. Bibliography : Benjamin-Constant: merveilles et mirages de l'orientalisme exhibition catalog, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins, October 4, 2014-January 4, 2015, Montreal, Musée des beaux-arts, January 31-May 31, 2015, collective ed. by Nathalie Bondil, 2014 , p. 263, reproduced ill. 326. This is the painting with which the artist entered the Prix de Rome competition in 1868.