Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners ("Cléopâtre essayant des poisons sur des condamnés à mort") is an 1887 painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel. It is held by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. It shows Cleopatra VII reclining on a banquette and observing the effects of poisons on prisoners condemned to death, as described in Mark Antony's "Plutarch's Lives". It is considered a canonical work of 19th-century orientalism and has been used as a model for plays and early films.