Belisarius (French: Bélisaire) is an oil on canvas history painting by the French artist François-André Vincent, from 1776.Zutter, Hilaire & Zeder p.180Crow p.199-200
It depicts a scene from the Byzantine Empire in which Belisarius is given aid by a passing officer. The artist drew inspiration from the 1767 novel Bélisaire by Jean-François Marmontel. It was one of fifteen works that Vincent displayed at the Salon of 1777 at the Louvre and was hung as a pendant to Alcibiades Being Taught by Socrates. Today it is part of the collection of the Musée Fabre ,in Montpellier which acquired it in 1937.Museée Fabre (French)
References
Bibliography Crow, Thomas E. Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-century Paris. Yale University Press, 1985. Mansfield, Elizabeth C. The Perfect Foil: François-André Vincent and the Revolution in French Painting. University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Zutter, Jörg, Hilaire, Michel & Zeder, Olivier (ed.) French Paintings from the Musée Fabre, Montpellier. National Gallery of Australia, 2003.