print
- Museum number
- 1851,0208.100
- Title
- Object: Amphiarao
- Description
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Amphiaraus on his chariot, swallowed up in the earth; in the background, a group of wounded soldiers. c.1540/50
Engraving
- Production date
- 1540-1550
- Dimensions
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Height: 330 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 229 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The design of that plate has been attributed to Primaticcio by Heinecken and to Rosso Fiorentino by Bartsch; Zerner finds the style different from that of Rosso and proposes the hypothesis of an original composition by Domenico del Barbiere.
Also see 'École de Fontainebleau', Paris 1972, Cat. No.335, and 'The French Renaissance in Prints', Los Angeles 1994, Cat. No.67
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1851,0208.100
