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Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena preparing themselves for the contest of beauty before Paris; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after Perino del Vaga

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)|Philippe Simonneau

ca. 1729–40

Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena preparing themselves for the contest of beauty before Paris; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after Perino del Vaga by Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)|Philippe Simonneau

Medium

Etching and engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 3/16 in. (53 × 38.5 cm) Plate: 16 1/4 × 12 3/8 in. (41.3 × 31.4 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960

Accession Number

60.708(83)

Tags

MinervaJunoVenusFemale Nudes

About the Artist

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)|Philippe Simonneau · 1501–1547

Perino del Vaga, born Piero Bonaccorsi in 1501 near Florence, emerged as one of the most elegant painters of the Mannerist era. Orphaned early—his mother died when he was two months old and his father, a gambler turned soldier, left him in the care of a stepmother—Perino received an unconventional start, apprenticed first to a druggist and then to the mediocre Andrea de' Ceri. At age eleven, he en...

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