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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Venus Pricked by the Thorns of a Rose Bush; Cupid Asleep in the Foreground

Giorgio Ghisi|Luca Penni

1556

Attribution
Engraved by|After Giorgio Ghisi|Luca Penni | Italian, Mantua ca. 1520–1582 Mantua|Italian, Florence 1500/1504–1557 Paris
Medium
Engraving
Physical dimensions
sheet: 12 1/8 x 8 3/8 in. (30.8 x 21.3 cm) within platemark
Credit line
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962
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