The Prisoner of Chillon () is an 1834 oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.Alston It depicts a scene from the 1816 poem of the same title by the British writer Lord Byron set in the sixteenth century.Johnson It portrays the Swiss hero François Bonivard chained in a dungeon of Chillon Castle, straining to reach out towards his younger brother.Davies
It was exhibited at the Salon of 1835 at the Louvre in Paris.Allard & Fabre It received a mixed reception, but generally admired for its brushwork and energy.Johnson It is now in the collection of the Louvre, having been acquired in 1906.https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE000916
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