Amorino with a laurel wreath
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 15 5/16 × 11 1/2 in. (38.9 × 29.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.2797
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *Amorino with a Laurel Wreath* (1774), a etching and engraving from the Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department. Created collaboratively by Marcantonio Frances, Violante Vanni, and Giuseppe Zocchi, print captures the playful spirit of 18th-century Italian art. Measuring 15 5/16 × 11 1/2 inches (trimmed), it exemplifies the reproductive printmaking techniques of the Rococo era, where etching's fluid lines and engraving's precise details allowed designs by painters like Franceschini—a master of Bolognese Baroque—to reach wider audiences through skilled engravers. At its heart is a...