Thetis Seated with a Triton
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 9 3/16 x 6 1/8 in. (23.3 x 15.5 cm) borderline
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.1835
Tags
About the Artist
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)|Anonymous, Italian?, 16th century|Giorgio Ghisi · 1501–1547
Perino del Vaga, born Piero Bonaccorsi in 1501 near Florence, emerged as one of the most elegant painters of the Mannerist era. Orphaned early—his mother died when he was two months old and his father, a gambler turned soldier, left him in the care of a stepmother—Perino received an unconventional start, apprenticed first to a druggist and then to the mediocre Andrea de' Ceri. At age eleven, he en...