Prudence as a young woman, sitting on a lion and holding the neck of a dragon with her left hand, holding a mirror in her right hand
Marcantonio Raimondi
ca. 1510–27
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 3/16 × 3 1/8 in. (10.7 × 8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930
Accession Number
30.54.80
Tags
LionsWomenDragonsMirrors
About the Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi · 1475–1534
Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480–1534), born near Bologna, Italy, emerged as one of the Renaissance's premier engravers, revolutionizing printmaking through his mastery of reproductive techniques. He trained in the workshop of the goldsmith, painter, and niellist Francesco Francia, whose influence is evident in his early engravings, such as the goldsmith-like shading in *Pyramus and Thisbe* (1505), h...