The garden of Venus, proof impression of upper left corner

ca. 1631–37

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; proof
Dimensions: sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 1/16 in. (22.5 x 28.1 cm)
Collection no.: 67.745
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Pietro Testa. The garden of Venus, proof impression of upper left corner. Pietro Testa; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Raymond R. Lewis, 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

The garden of Venus, proof impression of upper left corner — Pietro Testa. ca. 1631–37.

Medium: Etching; proof. Dimensions: sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 1/16 in. (22.5 x 28.1 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Raymond R. Lewis, 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.

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