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Achilles Dragging Hector's Body Around the Walls of Troy

Pietro Testa (Italian, 1612–1650)
about 1648–50

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 27.2 x 42.5 cm (10 11/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
Platemark: 26.7 x 41.9 cm (10 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Peter A. Wick
Accession Number55.34
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 22; Bellini 37, i/iv; Cropper 121, i/iv; Illustrated Bartsch 22, ii/vi
Marks Verso, upper center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenancePeter A. Wick, Boston (1920-2004); his gift to the MFA January 13, 1955