Briseis and Achilles
Artist: G F Watts (1817 - 1904)
Location: Watts Gallery
Date: 1858 - 1860
Materials: remounted fresco
Dimensions: 138 x 610 cm
Gift:
Review number: 1853 (1956)
Provenance:
Lord Lansdowne, Bowood House, Wiltshire.
Description:
The large fresco depicts a scene from the Iliad, where Achilles watches Briseis being led away from his tent. Grant was paid towards the cost of cutting the fresco from the wall at Bowood and transporting it to the Gallery.
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