Venus and Cupid
XVI century. Grey-brown ink, Pencil, Pencil ground on paper.Not on display
This is a replica of a drawing by Cambiaso or his School in the Louvre, Paris. Among the many School versions of this composition, is one formerly in the Suida Manning Collection, New York, and now in the Jack S. Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin.
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Virginia, Art Services International, 2008, p.272