The Sacrifice of Polyxena
Giovanni David
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
Tags
WeaponsMenWomenDeath
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...