Galatea

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Bartolomeo Biscaino

Title

Galatea

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

c. 1650–1660

Medium

Etching on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Lettered lower left: "biscainus Gen.sis in et F." and "Daman. ex."

Dimensions

Plate: 26.2 × 21 cm (10 3/8 × 8 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund

Reference Number

2024.519

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