Cain and His Race Cursed By God

Cain and His Race Cursed By God is an 1833-1839 marble sculpture by Antoine Étex, produced after an initial version in plaster, produced in Rome between 1831 and 1832, now in the Saint-Louis Chapel at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. It was inspired by Cain's murder of Abel. It was firsts exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1839, where it proved very successful and put him at the forefront of the 1830s generation of Romantic sculptors. It is now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.

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http://www.mba-lyon.fr/mba/sections/fr/collections-musee/sculptures/oeuvres-sculptures/xviiie_xixe_et_xxe/etex_cain-maudits

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