Alexander the Great Offering His Concubine Campaspe to the Painter Apelles

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Alexander the Great Offering His Concubine Campaspe to the Painter Apelles

Gaetano Gandolfi

Date
1793–97
Medium
Black chalk (stumped), highlighted with white, on brownish paper
Dimensions
12-1/16 x 16-7/8 in. (30.6 x 42.9 cm)
Object type
Drawing
Classification
Drawings
Object number
62.132.3
Credit line
Rogers Fund, 1962

Artist information

Italian, San Matteo della Decima 1734–1802 Bologna

Subjects and terms

  • Alexander The Great
  • Men
  • Women

The Met object ID 338818. 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.