Juno and two goddesses reclining on clouds with two child figures and fruits at right, an oval composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau 1560s

This engraving by Giorgio Ghisi, created in the 1560s, depicts the Roman goddess Juno reclining with two other goddesses on a cloud. Two child figures and an abundance of fruit are depicted on the right of the composition. Ghisi was commissioned to create this work after Francesco Primaticcio’s designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery at Fontainebleau, which were sadly destroyed in 1738. This print, along with seven others, is now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The composition is oval, a popular format in the Renaissance for capturing moments of intimacy and domesticity.