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The Rhinoceros, Clara, in the foreground, her keeper holding her horn and a whip behind her at center with various other spectators in Carnival masks

Alessandro Longhi|Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)|Joseph Wagner

after ca. 1751

The Rhinoceros, Clara, in the foreground, her keeper holding her horn and a whip behind her at center with various other spectators in Carnival masks by Alessandro Longhi|Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)|Joseph Wagner

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet: 16 5/16 × 20 1/4 in. (41.4 × 51.5 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1979

Accession Number

1979.525.4

Tags

AnimalsWomenSpectators

Art Historical Context

Step into the vibrant chaos of 18th-century Venice with this lively etching, *The Rhinoceros, Clara, in the foreground, her keeper holding her horn and a whip behind her at center with various other spectators in Carnival masks*. Created after ca. 1751 by Pietro Longhi (also known as Pietro Falca), with contributions from Alessandro Longhi and engraver Joseph Wagner, it captures a rare moment of exotic spectacle. Longhi, a master of Venetian genre scenes, delighted in portraying the city's everyday eccentrics and social whirl, here blending the extraordinary arrival of Clara—the famous touring...

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