The Release of Prometheus

A small horizontal pen-and-ink drawing in a ruled border on a large buff sheet. At left a winged eagle-like bird looms over a crouched figure; at right a nude figure reclines on rocky ground beside a second figure, with distant hills beyond.

Artist

Max Klinger

Date

late 19th–early 20th century

Medium

Pen and black ink on buff stock

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3798 × 1452 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Robert L. Isaacson, 1979