Achilles dragging the body of Hector around the walls of Troy
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 10 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (26.6 x 41.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Olga Sichel and Max Philippson, 1962
Accession Number
62.557.36
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Pietro Testa|Arnold van Westerhout · 1612–1650
Pietro Testa was born in Lucca in 1612 and, in accordance with the conventions of Italian artistic training, made his way to Rome while still young. There he studied under two of the leading painters of the early seventeenth century: Domenichino, from whom he absorbed a taste for classical restraint and narrative clarity, and Pietro da Cortona, whose more exuberant Baroque manner offered a contras...