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- Title:
The Education of Achilles [1772, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1772
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 40 1/2 x 50 3/4 inches (102.9 x 128.9 cm), Frame: 49 x 59 x 4 inches (124.5 x 149.9 x 10.2 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.6
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1978.6FR
- Subject Terms:
- art | centaurs | child | children | costume | death | diagram | gesture | Greek | herm | horse (animal) | infant | inscription | landscape | lyre | mathematics | men | mother | music | mythology | religious and mythological subject | shadow | shield | spear | statue | teaching | war | woman
- Associated People:
- Achilles
Chiron - Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:471
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