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Servius Tullius When a Child, Asleep in the Apartment of King Tarquinius Priscus

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Servius Tullius When a Child, Asleep in the Apartment of King Tarquinius Priscus

Angelica Kauffmann

ca. 1785

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray ink, heightened with white chalk, on blue paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 11 15/16 in. × 17 in. (30.3 × 43.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Van Day Truex Fund, 2016

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Angelica Kauffmann

1741–1807 • Three LeaguesSwitzerland

Swiss painter and etcher, and one of the few women artists of the time working in the Neo-Classical style to specialize in both portraits and subject pictures. Her famous sitters include the family of George III in Britain, Grand-Duke Paul and Prince Nikolay Yusupov in Russia, Stanislav II Poniatowski and Stanislav Kostka Potocki in Poland, Queen Caroline of Naples and Emperor Joseph II of Austria. Comment on works: Portraits; Mythology

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