Summer (Estate), represented as a robed woman bearing a horn of plenty, a spandrel-shaped composition from the series 'The Four Seasons'
Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)|Taddeo Zuccaro
ca. 1570–1615
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 9 3/4 x 6 5/16 in. (24.7 x 16 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.124.4
Tags
Women
About the Artist
Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)|Taddeo Zuccaro · 1553–1615
Cherubino Alberti (1553–1615), also known by his birth name Zaccaria Mattia, was an Italian engraver and painter active in Rome during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Born in Borgo San Sepolcro in Tuscany, he came from an artistically inclined family and received training that equipped him for work in both painting and the reproductive graphic arts. It was as a printmaker, however,...