Agamemnon Refuses to Liberate Chryseis; Minerva Appears to Achilles; The Abduction of Briseis

Three framed scenes stacked on a sheet of laid paper, drawn in brown ink and wash. The top scene shows a standing commander gesturing before a crowd, the middle a seated woman and a group of men in a tented interior, the bottom a figure pointing amid draped figures and a seated man. Hatching and wash give the drawing a soft, tonal finish.

Artist

Felice Giani

Date

1802–05

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash over traces of graphite on white laid paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

2266 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum