Battista Franco

Battista Franco belongs to the generation of sixteenth-century Italian printmakers whose engravings and etchings carried the expressive force of Michelangelo's figure style into the hands of collectors and fellow artists. His plates range across landscape, biblical narrative and scenes from the lives of saints and emperors, worked with a disciplined, linear handling of the burin and etching needle. This archive gathers five of his sheets, chiefly engravings alongside etching and engraving combinations, in impressions up to 1554 as recorded by the Met.

5 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

The Miraculous Draught of Fish

· Engraving

Constantine Presenting the City of Rome to the Holy See

ca. 1530–61 · Etching and engraving

The Deluge

ca. 1550–60 · Engraving

Landscape with a Horseman and His Groom

ca. 1552–61 · Etching; first state of two

St. Peter and St. John healing the lame man at the gate of the temple

ca. 1554–61 · Etching (second state)