Virgil reading The Aeneid before Augustus, Livia and Octavia

Virgil reading the Aeneid before Augustus, Livia and Octavia, known in French as Tu Marcellus Eris, is an 1812 painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.

This anecdote has also been depicted in works by other artists, including Jean-Joseph Taillasson, Antonio Zucchi, Jean-Baptiste Wicar, Jean-Bruno Gassies and Angelica Kaufmann.

Ingres was commissioned in 1811 by the French governor of Rome, General Miollis, a wealthy patron of the arts, to depict this event for his own residence, the villa Aldobrandini.

[2] He also added canvas to the top edge to convert the composition to a vertical format, but was dissatisfied with the result and removed the addition.

One of these paintings, a three-figure fragment cut from an abandoned version, is in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels.