Euterpe, from "Twelve Muses and Goddesses"
Francesco Primaticcio|Léon Davent
ca. 1540–45
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 in. × 6 5/16 in. (22.8 × 16.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.97.560
Tags
Musical InstrumentsMuses
About the Artist
Francesco Primaticcio|Léon Davent · 1504–1570
Primaticcio was the most influential Italian artist in France in the 16th century. Together with Rosso Fiorentino they created a style of mixing stucco decoration with mannerist paintings that became known as the Fontainebleau school. Italian painter, architect and sculptor. Comment on works: Religious; Allegory; History.