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The Battle of Antioch
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The Battle of Antioch

Guillaume Courtois | Girard Audran

1672–78

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 11 9/16 × 8 1/4 in. (29.3 × 20.9 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Guillaume Courtois

1628–1679 • County of Burgundy

At about age seven, painter's son Guillaume Courtois left France for Italy with his teenage brother. They followed the military campaigns that his brother drew, then studied in Bologna, Florence, and Siena, arriving in Rome by 1638. He was famed as a superb draftsman. His masterpiece in painting is considered to be the "Martyrdom of S. Andrea" (ca. 1670) over the high altar of S. Andrea al Quirinale in Rome. Comment on works: religious subjects, figures

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