Venus and Cupid

XVI century. Pencil, Grey-brown ink on paper.
Not on display

The drawing has been detached from the Album page and the old numbering lost. Cupid is here represented as older than on the other composition of the subject from the Album group. That he is indeed Cupid is suggested by what appears to be a quiver of arrows in his right hand.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Virginia, Art Services International, 2008, p.273

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Inventory number: D001891
Author: Anonymous (Follower of: Luca Cambiaso)
Title: Venus and Cupid
Date: XVI century
Technique: Pencil; Grey-brown ink
Support: Paper
Dimension: Height: 228 mm; Width: 367 mm
Provenance: Bequest of Pedro Fernández Durán y Bernaldo de Quirós, 1931
Entry date: 1931

Bibliography +

Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de dibujos. Dibujos italianos del siglo XVI (por Nicholas Turner, con la colaboración de José Manuel Matilla), V, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2004, pp. 273.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Art Services International, Virginia, 2008, pp. 273.

Other inventories +

Inv. Legado Pedro Fernández Durán, 1931. Núm. 320.

Update date: 02-06-2026 | Registry created on 28-04-2015

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