Detail of Flora and Zephyr by Amigoni in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2011

Flora and Zephyr

Jacopo Amigoni
(Italian, Venice 1682–1752 Madrid)

Date: 1730s

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 84 x 58 in. (213.4 x 147.3 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Purchase, Rudolph and Lentilhon G. von Fluegge Foundation Inc. Gift, 1985

Accession Number: 1985.5

Description:

The Venetians, Sebastiano Ricci, Giovanni Pellegrini, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Amigoni all worked throughout Europe, achieving international reputations. A number of Amigoni's best pictures were painted for clients in England, where he worked between 1729 and 1739. This picture, which celebrates the coming of spring in the union of Zephyr with Flora, is one of a pair dating to his English period. The pendant, now in a private collection, shows Venus and Adonis.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/435573