Costume Plate: Peasant Woman from Spain
Enea Vico
ca. 1555–58
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed to plate): 6 in. × 4 1/2 in. (15.3 × 11.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1958
Accession Number
58.651.48
Tags
Women
About the Artist
Enea Vico · 1523–1567
Enea Vico (1523–1567) was born in Parma and came of age during the final, energetic decades of Italian Renaissance printmaking. By 1541 he had made his way to Rome, where he entered the orbit of the engraver and publisher Tommaso Barlacchi and began his professional career. In Rome, Vico encountered the work of the most celebrated printmakers of the preceding generation—Marcantonio Raimondi, Agost...