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Angelica Kauffmann

Juno and the Peacock

1770
Etching on paper
21 × 16.3 cm (8.3 × 6.4 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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.

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