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Alceste

Prevost | Horace Vernet

ca. 1840

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 8 3/16 × 5 3/8 in. (20.8 × 13.7 cm) Image: 4 7/16 × 3 1/4 in. (11.2 × 8.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Prevost

1820 –1881 • French

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