Les Métamorphoses: Polyxène, fille de Priam, est égorgée sur la tombe d'Achille (Polyxena, Daughter of Priam, Murdered at the Tomb of Achilles)
Pablo Picasso
(Spanish (worked in France), 1881–1973)
Ovid
(43 B.C.–17 or 18 A.D.)
Albert Skira
(Swiss, 1904–1973)
Louis Fort
(French, 20th century)
Léon Pichon
(French, 20th century)
1931
Place of PublicationLausanne, Switzerland
Medium/TechniqueEtching (inserted between pp. 324 and 325) from the illustrated book with 30 etchings
DimensionsOverall (without portfolio): 33 x 26.5 x 6 cm (13 x 10 7/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession number63.753.27
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Not on viewClassificationsIllustrated books
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Lausanne: Albert Skira, 1931
ProvenanceBy 1955, William Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; 1963, bequest of Allen to the MFA. (Accession date: June 19, 1963)
Copyright© 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.