DETAILS
- Artist
- Karl Theodor von Piloty
- Date
- 1870
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 53 x 77 1/4 in. (134.6 x 196.2 cm)
- Collection
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Gift of Horace Russell, 1887
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Karl Theodor von Piloty
Karl Theodor von Piloty, a leading German painter of historical subjects, brought a new realism to epic scenes like 'Seni at the Dead Body of Wallenstein'.
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