Flora Receiving Flowers and Festoon of Flowers
Medium
Engraving; first state of two
Dimensions
sheet: 9 15/16 x 2 5/8 in. (25.2 x 6.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1958
Accession Number
58.627.4(5)
Art Historical Context
In the intricate engraving *Flora Receiving Flowers and Festoon of Flowers*, French Renaissance artist René Boyvin captures a graceful mythological moment. Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, is depicted receiving a bountiful floral tribute, adorned with a festoon that evokes the opulent natural abundance celebrated in 16th-century art.vin, active around 1525–1598 and part of the Fontainebleau, was renowned for his reproductive engravings that disseminated Mannerist designs from Italy and France to a wider audience. This work, in its rare first state of two, showcases the precisio...
About the Artist
René Boyvin · 1525–1580
French, Angers ca. 1525–1598 or 1625/6 Angers