Homeric Battle
Léopold Flameng
1868
Medium
Etching, with plate, tone on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 21.6 × 14.7 cm (8 9/16 × 5 13/16 in.); Sheet: 38.8 × 28.1 cm (15 5/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44301
About the Artist
Léopold Flameng · 1831–1911
Léopold Flameng (1831–1911) was one of the most accomplished and influential French engravers of the 19th century, whose exceptional technical mastery and artistic sensitivity made him the preeminent interpreter of paintings by old and modern masters through the medium of engraving. Born in Brussels on November 22, 1831, to French parents, and dying at Courgent, near Paris, on September 5, 1911, F...