Hannibal the Conqueror Viewing Italy from the Alps for the First Time
Francisco de Goya, 1771
For now, just to look at
The photograph we have of this work is not sharp enough to print at the quality we want, so we are not selling it for now. We are looking for a better one.
About the work
- Artist
- Francisco de Goya
- Date
- 1771
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Collection
- Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
- Reference
- XDV-1407
What the museum label doesn't tell you
The painting was lost and mistakenly attributed to Corrado Giaquinto for over a century, hanging on display with no one aware it was a Goya, until its true authorship was discovered in 1993.
Sources (5)
- museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-victorious-hannibal-se
- museodelprado.es/actualidad/noticia/la-fundacion-amigos-del-museo-del-
- es.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%ADbal_vencedor_contempla_por_primera_vez_I
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Victorious_Hannibal_Seeing_Italy_from_the_Al
- museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/anibal-vencedor-que-por-primer
