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Earth, represented by Cybele seated at the base of a tree with fruits of the earth spread before her, a cupid with a torch approaches from the right, a stag and hound look toward Cybele from the left, from "The Elements"
1640–60
- Dating
- Date range
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Plate: 4 3/16 × 6 3/8 in. (10.6 × 16.2 cm) Sheet: 9 in. × 12 13/16 in. (22.8 × 32.5 cm)
- Collection no.
- 67.683.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giulio Carpioni. Earth, represented by Cybele seated at the base of a tree with fruits of the earth spread before her, a cupid with a torch approaches from the right, a stag and hound look toward Cybele from the left, from "The Elements". Giulio Carpioni; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum Accession, by exchange, 1967. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Earth, represented by Cybele seated at the base of a tree with fruits of the earth spread before her, a cupid with a torch approaches from the right, a stag and hound look toward Cybele from the left, from "The Elements" — Giulio Carpioni. 1640–60.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate: 4 3/16 × 6 3/8 in. (10.6 × 16.2 cm) Sheet: 9 in. × 12 13/16 in. (22.8 × 32.5 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Museum Accession, by exchange, 1967.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.