Ajax in the Grave
Jacob Wilhelm Mechau
ca. 1790–99
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown ink, over graphite sketch
Dimensions
22 1/4 x 31 1/2 in. (56.5 x 80 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2007
Accession Number
2007.322
Tags
SoldiersMenDonkeysTrees
About the Artist
Jacob Wilhelm Mechau · 1745–1808
Jacob Wilhelm Mechau (1745–1808) was a German painter and draughtsman who became one of the more distinctive landscape artists working in Rome during the late eighteenth century. Born in Dresden in 1745, Mechau received his early artistic education in the rich environment of that city's court culture, which placed a high premium on classical training and technical refinement. He later made his way...