Andromache in Captivity
Medium
Photogravure on chine collé
Dimensions
Plate: 8 1/16 × 13 in. (20.5 × 33 cm) Sheet: 11 9/16 × 16 13/16 in. (29.3 × 42.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Donato Esposito, 2015
Accession Number
2015.653.1
Tags
About the Artist
Homer|Frederic, Lord Leighton|George Barrie · 1836–1910
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was one of America's greatest painters and a preeminent figure in 19th-century American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career as a commercial illustrator and Civil War correspondent for Harper's Weekly before becoming renowned for his powerful marine subjects and landscape paintings. His mastery of both oil and watercolor, combined with his uncompromising reali...