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Aeneas fleeing Troy, with a group of six figures leaving the city at left, Aeneas carrying his father Anchises on his back, followed by his wife Creusa and his son Ascanius, two servants at far left

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

Aeneas fleeing Troy, with a group of six figures leaving the city at left, Aeneas carrying his father Anchises on his back, followed by his wife Creusa and his son Ascanius, two servants at far left

Anton Joseph von Prenner|Peter Paul Rubens

Date
1728
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 6 7/16 × 8 11/16 in. (16.4 × 22 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
51.501.7692
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

Austrian, Wallerstein 1683–1761 Vienna|Flemish, Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp

Subjects and terms

  • Men
  • Fathers
  • Women
  • Aeneas
  • Ships

The Met object ID 771247. 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.