Scene from Roman History, depicting a Youth receiving Armor from a Dying Man (Scipio Africanus and His Son?)
Mathieu-Ignace van Bree
late 18th–mid 19th century
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and black and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, black chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 17 1/16 × 20 11/16 in. (43.3 × 52.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2013
Accession Number
2013.533
Tags
SoldiersArmorMen
About the Artist
Mathieu-Ignace van Bree (Flemish) · 1773 –1839
Flemish, Antwerp 1773–1839 Antwerp