Achilles Yields Briseis
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Achilles shown sitting before his tent, filled with anger. Patroclus delivers maiden to two messengers of Agamemnon. Part of sailing ship shown in right middle plane.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1790
- Accession Number
- 1901-39-3291
- Designer
- Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- figures
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on light blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 24.1 x 29 cm (9 1/2 x 11 7/16 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1901-39-3291
