Landscape with Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 19 × 29.7 cm (7 1/2 × 11 3/4 in.); sheet: 34 × 41 cm (13 7/16 × 16 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
280024
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Fontana
Giovanni Battista Fontana (1524-1587) was an Italian painter and engraver from the Veneto region who achieved his greatest success working for the Habsburg court in Austria. Born at Ala near Verona in 1524 (not Venice as sometimes stated) and dying on September 25, 1587, Fontana's career exemplifies the mobility of skilled artists in the sixteenth century and the importance of aristocratic patrona...