Pietro TESTA
Venus in a garden with putti
(1632)

Medium
etching on grey paper

Measurements
33.9 × 41.4 cm (image) 34.6 × 41.4 cm (image and text) 35.1 × 41.7 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1961

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Rome, Italy

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bartsch 26; Bellini 12 iv/iv

Edition
4th of 4 states

Printing/Publishing
published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: PT (monogram) .
printed in ink l.r.: Gio.Iacomo Roßi forma Roma alla Pace

Accession Number
852-5

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Subjects (general)
Human Figures Religion and Mythology

Subjects (specific)
deities gardens (open spaces) nudes (representations) play (recreation) putti (children) trees Venus (Roman deity) women (female humans)

Movements
Baroque