Portrait of the future Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II as the Archduke o

An engraved allegorical composition with a small oval portrait of a young man in armor held aloft by two putti. Below, a crowned figure in ermine-trimmed robes gestures upward beside a seated woman writing on a tablet, a resting lion, and a celestial globe, with a river city in the distance. A Latin inscription runs along the lower margin.

Look closer: A small coat of arms with a lion sits at the bottom left, near the foot of the lion.

Artist

Carlo Faucci

Date

ca. 1760–67

Medium

Engraving

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2885 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011