Sleep Escaping from the Wrath of Jupiter – "But gentle Night to whom I fled for Aid (the Friend of Earth and Heaven), Her Wings Display'd" (Pope's Iliad, Book 14, line 293)
John Flaxman
1793
Medium
Pen and black ink over graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 x 8 5/16 in. (27.9 x 21.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Scott & Fowles, 1918
Accession Number
18.141.3
Tags
Men
About the Artist
John Flaxman · 1755–1826
John Flaxman (1755–1826) was born in York, England, the son of John Flaxman Sr., a moulder and seller of plaster casts who ran a studio in London's Covent Garden. Largely self-taught amid his father's stock of classical casts, with minimal formal schooling due to childhood illness, Flaxman displayed prodigious talent early on. At age 12, he won a Society of Arts prize for a medallion; by 15, anoth...