# Juno and the Peacock

- By: Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741-1807)
- Date: 1770
- Medium: Etching on paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: 21 × 16.3 cm (8 5/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
- Culture: Switzerland
- Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Woods Endowment
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111897)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/b5fcfa3d-6e5b-0957-dc7c-9adf44cc608e/full/843,/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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