The Sacrifice of Polyxena
1776
Medium
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Plate: 8 3/4 × 11 15/16 in. (22.2 × 30.3 cm) Sheet: 10 1/4 × 13 9/16 in. (26 × 34.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1998
Accession Number
1998.386
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Giovanni David · 1749–1790
Giovanni David (1743–1790) was a Genoese painter and etcher whose brief career, shaped by distinguished patronage and wide-ranging travel, produced a body of work remarkable for its experimental verve. Born in Genoa, he came under the protection of Count Giacomo Durazzo, a cultivated Genoese nobleman and diplomat who became the defining figure of his artistic life. Durazzo sponsored David's traini...