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Pluto and Prosperina
Michelangelo Maestri (Italian, d. 1812)
ca. 1802
- Medium
- Brush and tempera on heavy paper
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- Drawing: 32.5 × 28.2 cm (12 13/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- Rome
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Anonymous Donor
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Pluto, seated with Prosperina on a throne resembling the three-headed Cerberus, holds a triton in his right hand, his left over Prosperina's shoulder. Three Medusas kneel on the ground beside them. Possibly after decorations for the Apartments of Cardinal Bibbiens in the Vatican.
