The Goodbyes of Alcestis

This marble is a reduced-size version of Allar’s life-size model exhibited at the 1881 Paris Salon des artistes fran�ais. It received the prestigious m�daille d’honneur and was acquired by the French state for the Mus�e du Luxembourg. The marble portrays a scene from one of the great Greek tragedies, Alcestis by Euripides, written in 438 B.C.E. Allar here presents the moment that Alcestis passes from this world into the next.