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Andromache trying to protect Astyanax from the Greek soldiers who have come to murder him

Maker

(artist)
1644-1717

(engraver)
1682-1739

(publisher)
1686-1762

(printer)
1686-1762

Title

Andromache trying to protect Astyanax from the Greek soldiers who have come to murder him

Date of Production

1742

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 45.7 cm
Width: 31.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5877

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin left & recto : : venet pinxit //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin centre left & recto : : Quelle aveugle fureur transporte les humaina! / Le Grec afame de carnage / Dans le sang d'un Enfant cherche a tremper ses mains, / Rien ne peut areter sa rage. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin centre right & recto : : Vainement Andromaque en son sein maternel / Cache le fruit de ses entrailles [colon] / Astianax perce par un fer criminel / Y va trouver ses funerailles. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin centre & recto : : A Paris chez L. Surugue graveur du Roy, rue des Noyers, vis-a-vis le mur de S Yves, A.P.D.R. 1742. //

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