Venus and Adonis, surrounded by many putti, reclining after the hunt, with a dead boar in the lower right

Q: When was "Venus and Adonis, surrounded by many putti, reclining after the hunt, with a dead boar in the lower right" created?

This artwork was created 1631–37.

Q: Is "Venus and Adonis, surrounded by many putti, reclining after the hunt, with a dead boar in the lower right" in the public domain?

Yes, Venus and Adonis, surrounded by many putti, reclining after the hunt, with a dead boar in the lower right is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Pietro Testa|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi

1631–37

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

sheet: 14 5/16 x 17 15/16 in. (36.4 x 45.6 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

Accession Number

51.501.4248

About the Artist

Pietro Testa|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi · 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...

Venus and Adonis, surrounded by many putti, reclining after the hunt, with a dead boar in the lower right

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