Cupid on a tiger

Wenceslaus Hollar|Giulio Romano

1652 · Etching, only state · Drawings and Prints

Cupid riding a tiger, running towards right, holding on to a band wound around its neck. From a series of six plates, etched by Hollar after drawings by Giulio Romano from the collection of Nicolas Lanier, designs for stucco medallions at the Palazzo Te in Mantua.

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar|Giulio Romano

Date

1652

Medium

Etching, only state

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917