Jupiter and Juno: Study for the "Furti di Giove" Tapestries
ca. 1532–35
Medium
Pen and dark brown ink with brown and gray wash, highlighted with white gouache
Dimensions
Sheet: 17 x 15 3/4 in. (43.2 x 40 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Acquisitions Fund and Annette and Oscar de la Renta Gift, 2011
Accession Number
2011.36
Tags
About the Artist
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · 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...