Alexander the Great before the Corpse of Darius

Francesco Fontebasso, 1750s/1760s

This is a drawing of a group of soldiers gathered around a fallen warrior. The scene is set in a wooded area with large trees and tents in the background. The central fallen warrior is adorned with armor and a… · description from the collection

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Artist: Francesco Fontebasso ¹
Date: 1750s/1760s ¹
Medium: pen and brown ink over black chalk, brown and gray and red wash, strengthened with pen and black ink and tip of the brush with black wash, heighteend with white gouache (laid on eighteeneth century paper) ¹
Original: 3,694 × 5,180 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

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