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Juno and the Peacock
Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741-1807)
1770
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 21 × 16.3 cm (8 5/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- Switzerland
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Woods Endowment
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Greatly admired for her portraits, Kauffmann also made etchings that occasionally, as here, reflect her mythological bent. This impression represents an early state of the etching, before the addition of the aquatint and the published state of 1780.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
