Giovanni Andrea Podestà
Giovanni Andrea Podestà belongs to the Italian tradition of printmaking in which figure studies and compositions after earlier masters were carried into etching. The single sheet held here is an etching, dated by the Met to 1636, and it takes its subject from Titian, showing putti before a statue of Venus. The collection therefore offers one example of his etched work from that year; where the surviving sheets are later printings, they are impressions up to that date.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
