Bacchus with Diana and Minerva
Pierre Brebiette
1551 to 1600
Medium
etching
Dimensions
image: 32.4 x 40.1 cm (12 3/4 x 15 13/16 in.) sheet: 32.4 x 40.1 cm (12 3/4 x 15 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1971.36.1
About the Artist
Pierre Brebiette · 1598–1642
Pierre Brébiette (c. 1598–c. 1642) was a French painter and etcher whose elegant, sensuous treatment of classical mythology and allegory earned him a significant reputation in early seventeenth-century Paris. Born in Mantes-sur-Seine, Brébiette traveled to Italy as a young man and lived and worked in Rome from around 1617 to approximately 1625, absorbing the influences of ancient sculpture, Renais...