Latona and the Lycian peasants
Landscape with Latona; a woman holding two children seated on the right at the edge of a pool, two figures dip their hands into the water, a third gesticulates to the right. After a painting on copper by Elsheimer in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne.
Artwork Details
- Title: Latona and the Lycian peasants
- Etcher: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
- Artist: After Adam Elsheimer (German, Frankfurt 1578–1610 Rome)
- Date: 1649
- Medium: Etching, only state
- Dimensions: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 1/8 in. (17.1 × 23.2 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
- Object Number: 17.50.17-375
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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