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Venus and Mars embracing with a putto to either side
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Venus and Mars embracing with a putto to either side

Medium

Etching, squared in black chalk; second state of two

Dimensions

Sheet: 8 9/16 × 5 7/8 in. (21.7 × 15 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Paolo Pagani

1661 –1716 Italian

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