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Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / Death of Patroclus / Menelaus protecting the body of Patroclus
Menelaus / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known Prototypes / Florence, Loggia dei Lanzi (formerly Ponte Vecchio, found near the Porta Portese, Menelaus with the body of Patroclus)

Further details

Despite the signature of Giuseppe Marchi, an engraver working for Reynolds, the British Museum database (as of January 2017) suggests that the drawing is by Reynolds

Artist or creator

Reynolds, Joshua (Sir) (1723-1792)

Date

1752

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Prints and Drawings) (inv. 1859,0514.304)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Erna Mandowsky, Two Menelaus and Patroclus replicas in Florence and Joshua Reynolds's contribution, Art Bulletin 28-2 (1946), pp. 115-118, fig. 2

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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