The Garden of Venus who reclines in the centre before a term of Pan and surrounded by cupids
Pietro Testa
ca. 1631–37
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Image: 13 1/2 x 16 5/16 in. (34.3 x 41.5 cm) Sheet: 13 3/4 x 16 11/16 in. (35 x 42.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.70.3(44)
Tags
Female NudesGardensCupidVenus
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...