Vulcan seated hammering on an anvil flanked by Venus and three cupids

ca. 1515–27

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 4 1/4 × 6 7/8 in. (10.8 × 17.4 cm)
Collection no.: 59.570.295
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Marco Dente. Vulcan seated hammering on an anvil flanked by Venus and three cupids. Marco Dente; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959. 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

Vulcan seated hammering on an anvil flanked by Venus and three cupids — Marco Dente. ca. 1515–27.

Medium: Engraving. Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 4 1/4 × 6 7/8 in. (10.8 × 17.4 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959.

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.

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