print
- Museum number
- 1855,0609.758
- Title
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Object: Alexandre, considérant les ruines de la ville de Troie, honore le tombeau d'Achille et y met dessus une couronne
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Series: Recueil d'estampes d'après les tableaux des peintres les plus célèbres d'Italie, des Pays-Bas et de France
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Series: Galerie d'Aguilles
- Description
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Plate 66: Alexander the Great paying homage to the tomb of Achilles, also identified as Augustus paying homage to the tomb of Alexander, with the sovereign standing at centre before a sarcophagus and ordering men to place a wreath upon it, after Bourdon. c.1690/1709
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1690-1709
- Dimensions
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Height: 293 millimetres
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Width: 362 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1855,0609.753 for comment.
Lit: Jacques Thuillier, 'Sébastien Bourdon', Paris 2000, cat. No.121
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1855,0609.758
