Mars and Venus in the Bath
Giovanni David|Giulio Romano
1770–90
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed to plate): 10 5/8 × 13 9/16 in. (27 × 34.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947
Accession Number
47.100.1097
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Giovanni David|Giulio Romano · 1749–1790
Giovanni David (1743–1790) was a Genoese painter and etcher whose brief career, shaped by distinguished patronage and wide-ranging travel, produced a body of work remarkable for its experimental verve. Born in Genoa, he came under the protection of Count Giacomo Durazzo, a cultivated Genoese nobleman and diplomat who became the defining figure of his artistic life. Durazzo sponsored David's traini...