Darius Receiving Water from the Helmet of One of Alexander's Soldiers

1774

Bernhard Rode

Artist, German, 1725 - 1797

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Susan Schulman

  • Dimensions

    plate: 12.8 x 21.2 cm (5 1/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 16.3 x 24.7 cm (6 7/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.51.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Jacobs 1989, no. 95

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Susan Schulman, New York; gift to NGA, 2001.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1989

  • Jacobs, Renate. Das graphische Werk Bernhard Rodes (1725 - 1797). Münster, 1989.

Inscriptions

by artist, lower right in plate: B. Rode; by later hand, lower center below plate in graphite: Darius trinkt aus (not deciphered); by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 5596; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: (not deciphered)

Wikidata ID

Q76336631

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