Lot 139: * CONRAD MARTIN METZ BONN 1745/9 - 1827 ROME

HIPPOLYTUS DRAGGED TO HIS DEATH ON THE SEA-SHORE, WITH NEPTUNE LOOKING ON, RIDING A SEA-BULL

measurements note
393 by 525mm; 15 1/2 by 20 5/8 in

signed and dated in brown ink, lower right: C.M. Metz/ Roma 1820

pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, on paper prepared brown;
bears illegible inscription in black chalk, upper right

PROVENANCE

The Hon. Robert Otway-Cave (1796-1844), and his wife Sophia Otway-Cave (née Burdett), to whom the inscription on the mount refers

NOTE

Metz was born in Bonn, but was a pupil of Bartolozzi in London, before becoming a Royal Academician. A painter and engraver, he concentrated particularly on religious subjects, and in 1802 left for Rome, where he was to engrave Michelangelo's Last Judgement.