The King's Sons Shooting at Their Father's Corpse
Medium
Pen and black ink
Dimensions
8 7/16 x 13 3/16 in. (21.5 x 33.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1996
Accession Number
1996.31
Tags
Art Historical Context
This chilling 16th-century drawing titled *The King's Sons Shooting at Their Father'sse*, is an anonymous attributed to either German or Swiss of the Renaissance era. Created with pen and black ink on a sheet measuring 8 7/16 x 13 3/16 inches, it exemplifies the raw expressiveness of Northern European draftsmanship. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it was acquired through the Harry G. Sper Fund in 1996The stark scene depicts a profound act of familial betrayal: the king's sons firing arrows at their father's lifeless body, surrounded by male figures in...