Juno and the Peacock
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
21 × 16.3 cm (8 5/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
111897
Art Historical Context
Angelica Kauffmann'sJuno and the Peacock (1770) is a delicate etching on paper, measuring 21 × 16.3 cm, housed in the Art Institute of's Prints and Drawings department This intimate work captures the Roman goddess Juno, queen of the gods, with her sacred peacock, a symbol of immortality and her divine vanity in classical mythology. Kauffmann a pioneering Swiss-born Neoclassical and one of only two women founders of London's Royal Academy of Arts, masterfully blends elegance and restraint in her depiction. Created during the height of Neoclassicism, which revived ancient Greek and Roman ideals...
About the Artist
Angelica Kauffmann · 1741–1807
Swiss painter and etcher, and one of the few women artists of the time working in the Neo-Classical style to specialize in both portraits and subject pictures. Her famous sitters include the family of George III in Britain, Grand-Duke Paul and Prince Nikolay Yusupov in Russia, Stanislav II Poniatowski and Stanislav Kostka Potocki in Poland, Queen Caroline of Naples and Emperor Joseph II of Austria...