Ettore

About this artwork

collector's mark: Lugt 12

Art Historical Context

### Ettore by Pietro Bonato BeholdEttore*, a striking engraving by the Italian artist Pietro Bonato, active between 1775 and1827. This large-scale print, measuring 640mm high by 406mm wide, likely portrays the Trojan hero Hector—known as "Ettore in Italian—from classical mythology. Bonato, a skilled engraver of his time, captured this noble figure in a medium that was immensely popular in the late th and early 19th centuries for reproducing paintings and classical subjects with remarkable precision and detail. Engraving, the technique used here, involves incising lines into a metal plate wit...