Ulysses Entering Troy with the Death of Astyanax

A mounted warrior in a plumed helmet rides a pale horse through a smoking city, its domed building and columns burning behind him. Around him soldiers thrust with spears amid fallen bodies, drawn in pen and brown ink with brush wash.

Look closer: A half-buried body sprawls in the lower center foreground among the rubble.

Artist

Giuseppe Piattoli

Date

1785–1800

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash (recto); faint black chalk sketch of same subject (verso)

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3500 × 2649 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Philippe and Edith de Montebello, 1998