The garden of Venus, proof impression of upper left corner
Pietro Testa
ca. 1631–37
Medium
Etching; proof
Dimensions
sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 1/16 in. (22.5 x 28.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Raymond R. Lewis, 1967
Accession Number
67.745
About the Artist
Pietro Testa · 1612–1650
Pietro Testa was born in Lucca in 1612 and, in accordance with the conventions of Italian artistic training, made his way to Rome while still young. There he studied under two of the leading painters of the early seventeenth century: Domenichino, from whom he absorbed a taste for classical restraint and narrative clarity, and Pietro da Cortona, whose more exuberant Baroque manner offered a contras...