Jacques-Louis David
A painting by Jacques-Louis David, entitled The Sabine Women Enforcing Peace by Running between the Combatants, also called The Intervention of the Sabine Women:
Some of the information from Wikipedia:
After David’s wife visited him in jail, he conceived the idea of telling the story of the Sabine Women. [The painting] is said to have been painted to honor his wife, with the theme being love prevailing over conflict. The painting was also seen as a plea for the people to reunite after the bloodshed of the revolution.
The story for the painting is as follows: “The Romans have abducted the daughters of their neighbors, the Sabines. To avenge this abduction, the Sabines attacked Rome, although not immediately – since Hersilia, the daughter of Tatius, the leader of the Sabines, had been married to Romulus, the Roman leader, and then had two children by him in the interim. Here we see Hersilia between her father and husband as she adjures the warriors on both sides not to take wives away from their husbands or mothers away from their children. The other Sabine Women join in her exhortations.”
