Landscape with Putti
c. 1550
Léon Davent
Léon Davent (French)
Prints
Landscapes: Landscape with Putti, c. 1550. Léon Davent (French). Etching; sheet: 17 x 24.8 cm (6 11/16 x 9 3/4 in.); platemark: 16.6 x 24.1 cm (6 9/16 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1989.78 In the 1530s, the Italian artist Rosso Primaticcio was sent by the French king Francis I to Rome. There, Rosso studied classical sculpture and monuments, which he reproduced in his drawings and casts. These works by Rosso had a significant impact on Fontainebleau School's printmakers, such as Antonio Fantuzzi and Léon Davent. Here in this etching, Davent reproduces a picturesque landscape filled with ruined classical monuments and populated by playful putti.
- Maker/Artist
- Davent, Léon
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- etching
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 17 x 24.8 cm (6 11/16 x 9 3/4 in.); Platemark: 16.6 x 24.1 cm (6 9/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: lower center, in plate?: LD ; VERSO, lower center, in graphite: APG 10491
- Departments
- Prints
- Accession Number
- 1989.78
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Year in Review for 1989, Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620, Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/3/97 - 10/26/97. "Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620."
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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