Cupid on a lion

Giulio Romano|Wenceslaus Hollar

1652 · Etching; only state · Drawings and Prints

Cupid riding a lion, walking in profile to right, holding a band wound around its neck and forehead. 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

Giulio Romano|Wenceslaus Hollar

Date

1652

Medium

Etching; only state

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917