Cupid and an eagle
Wenceslaus Hollar|Giulio Romano
1652 · Etching; first state of two · Drawings and Prints
Cupid riding an eagle, embracing its neck, as it walks to right towards an altar, on which stands a bowl with smoking offering. 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; first state of two
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
