FLAXMAN, John
(b. 1755, York, d. 1826, London)

The Fight for the Body of Patroclus

1793
Engraving, 152 x 266 mm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

This illustration to Homer's Illiad was one of the sources from which Jacques-Louis David borrowed when painted the Intervention of the Sabine Women.




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