Juno and the Peacock

Description

Greatly admired for her portraits, Kauffmann also made etchings that occasionally, as here, reflect her mythological bent. This impression represents an early state of the etching, before the addition of the aquatint and the published state of 1780.

Juno and the Peacock

Angelica Kauffmann

1770

Accession Number

111897

Medium

Etching on paper

Dimensions

21 × 16.3 cm (8 5/16 × 6 7/16 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Woods Endowment