Amorini Celebrate the Rape of Proserpine

Putti dance hand in hand around a tree on a grassy lawn, while others perch in its branches. A winged figure drifts among clouds at upper right, and a distant chariot and small rotunda sit in the landscape, all rendered in engraved line within an oval.

Look closer: A small chariot with horses sits in the distant landscape on the left.

Artist

Francesco Rosaspina

Date

1805–12

Medium

Engraving and etching, incomplete proof impression

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3909 × 3250 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1923