Peasant Woman with Two Children
Medium
etching heightened with white on blue paper
Dimensions
sheet: 23.6 × 18.9 cm (9 5/16 × 7 7/16 in.) [trimmed within platemark] mount: 41.9 × 27.7 cm (16 1/2 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ellwanger/Mescha Collection
Accession Number
2017.19.50
About the Artist
Francesco Londonio
Francesco Londonio (1723–1783), born into a noble Milanese family as the fourth of seven siblings, emerged as one of the 18th century's most prolific interpreters of rural life in Lombardy. He trained under the painters Ferdinando Porta and Giovanni Battista Sassi in Milan, accompanying Porta to Parma where Correggio's works left a lasting impression, and later studied etching techniques with Beni...