Gift of George Hubbard Clapp
41.122
Achilles
1650 (Earliest date)
Pen, brown ink, and graphite on paper
6.675 in W
x
8.125 in H
(Image)
11.125 in W x 12 in H (Paper)
11.125 in W x 12 in H (Paper)
European
This drawing is on a handmade paper that contains a watermark depicting a crescent moon in a circle.
After Pietro Testa, Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector, 1648-50
After Pietro Testa, Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector, 1648-50
Bears the inscription “[...] in [...] cuadrato un Aiace ben inteso specialmente in anatomia” in later hand.
This drawing is an almost identical copy of an etching by Pietro Testa. Note, for instance, the gap in Achilles’s foot where it was obscured in the original print. Like many of his contemporaries, Testa himself was also a copyist. His Achilles borrows reverentially from the classical statue Laocoön and His Sons.
Wall label from the exhibition The Curious Drawings of Doctor Clapp, UAG, October 24–December 6, 2019.
This drawing is an almost identical copy of an etching by Pietro Testa. Note, for instance, the gap in Achilles’s foot where it was obscured in the original print. Like many of his contemporaries, Testa himself was also a copyist. His Achilles borrows reverentially from the classical statue Laocoön and His Sons.
Wall label from the exhibition The Curious Drawings of Doctor Clapp, UAG, October 24–December 6, 2019.
In Collection
Acquired by the University of Pittsburgh from Mary Burgwin Denny in 1941. Funds for the purchase donated by George Hubbard Clapp.
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