Venus naked sitting at right drying her foot with a piece of drapery, Cupid, in front of her, holding a bow in his right hand
Marcantonio Raimondi|Anonymous
ca. 1520–30
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 11/16 × 6 3/8 in. (19.6 × 16.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.570.281
Tags
BuildingsCupidVenus
About the Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi|Anonymous · 1475–1534
Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480–1534), born near Bologna, Italy, emerged as one of the Renaissance's premier engravers, revolutionizing printmaking through his mastery of reproductive techniques. He trained in the workshop of the goldsmith, painter, and niellist Francesco Francia, whose influence is evident in his early engravings, such as the goldsmith-like shading in *Pyramus and Thisbe* (1505), h...