Aeneas Carrying Anchises in the Burning of Troy

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

Aeneas Carrying Anchises in the Burning of Troy

Francesco Allegrini

Date
1624–63
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink on mount
Dimensions
3-13/16 x 5-1/8 in. (9.7 x 13.0 cm)
Object type
Drawing
Classification
Drawings
Object number
80.3.98
Credit line
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880

Artist information

Italian, Cantiano (?) 1615/20–after 1679 Gubbio (?)

Subjects and terms

  • Aeneas
  • Fire
  • Human Figures

The Met object ID 338024. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.