Ajax, Back View, from Oeuvre de Canova
Antonio Canova
1817
Medium
Engraving and etching in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 62.4 × 42 cm (24 5/8 × 16 9/16 in.); Sheet: 86 × 62 cm (33 7/8 × 24 7/16 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
260562
About the Artist
Antonio Canova · 1757–1822
Antonio Canova, born on November 1, 1757, in the small town of Possagno in the Republic of Venice, was immersed in sculpture from childhood. His father, Pietro Canova, a stonecutter, died when Antonio was just four, prompting his mother, Angela Zardo Fantolin, to remarry and place him under the care of his paternal grandfather, Pasino Canova. A skilled stonemason and sculptor of late Baroque altar...