Realm of Juno

Wenceslaus Hollar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Juno seated on tall throne with tapestry behind, wearing embroidered dress and fur-trimmed mantle and holding sceptre in her right hand, leaning slightly to left; men at work under vaults in the background; after Elsheimer. The painting was in the Arundel collection but is now lost (see K. Andrews, 'Adam Elsheimer:Paintings-Drawings-Prints', Oxford 1977, under no. 22).

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

Metropolitan Museum of Art