Servius Tullius When a Child, Asleep in the Apartment of King Tarquinius Priscus

Angelica Kauffmann

ca. 1785 · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray ink, heightened with white chalk, on blue paper · Drawings and Prints

This drawing relates to an oil that Kauffmann painted for Catherine the Great in 1785. Servius Tullius was King of Rome between 578-535 BC and here is shown as child in the house of his predecessor, King Tarquinius Priscus. Servius would later marry the latter's daughter Tullia and then be murdered by their daughter and son-in-law.

Artist

Angelica Kauffmann

Date

ca. 1785

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray ink, heightened with white chalk, on blue paper

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Van Day Truex Fund, 2016