 Cleopatra 's Arrival in Cilicia ( also known as The Triumph of Cleopatra ) is based loosely on Plutarch 's Life of Antony and Shakespeare 's Antony and Cleopatra , in which the Queen of Egypt travels to Tarsus in Cilicia aboard a grand ship to cement an alliance with the Roman general Mark Antony . While superficially similar to The Coral Finder , Cleopatra is more closely related to the style of Regnault , with its intentionally cramped and crowded composition . The individual figures are out of proportion to each other and the ship , while many figures are tightly positioned within a small section of the painting . As well as from Regnault , the work borrows elements from Titian , Rubens and classical sculpture . 
