Landscape from "Venus Pushing Cupid" frame
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 5 5/16 in. × 8 in. (13.5 × 20.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.95.375
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate etching, created between 1540 and 1545, captures a tranquil landscape of rolling hills dotted with houses. Attributed to Antonio Fantuzzi after designs by Rosso Fiorentino, it likely served as a decorative frame element for a larger mythological scene titled *Venus Pushing Cupid*. The compact sheet, measuring just over five by eight inches, showcases the intimate scale often favored in Renaissance printmaking. Rosso Fiorentino, a leading figure of Italian Mannerism, brought his elegant, elongated style to the French court at Fontainebleau, where he collaborated with printmakers ...