Cleveland Museum of Art

Landscape with Putti

Date

c. 1550

Medium

etching

Culture

France, 16th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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