Latona and the Lycian peasants

Latona and the Lycian peasants

Wenceslaus Hollar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Landscape with Latona; a woman holding two children seated on the right at the edge of a pool, two figures dip their hands into the water, a third gesticulates to the right. After a painting on copper by Elsheimer in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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