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
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...