Jupiter, Pluto, and Neptune Offering their Riches to Fortune
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25.7 x 20cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.601.22
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
PlutoJupiterNeptune
About the Artist
Pierre Brebiette|Claude Vignon · 1598–1642
Pierre Brébiette (c. 1598–c. 1642) was a French painter and etcher whose elegant, sensuous treatment of classical mythology and allegory earned him a significant reputation in early seventeenth-century Paris. Born in Mantes-sur-Seine, Brébiette traveled to Italy as a young man and lived and worked in Rome from around 1617 to approximately 1625, absorbing the influences of ancient sculpture, Renais...