Venus and Cupid

XVI century. Pencil, Grey-brown ink, Pencil ground on paper.
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Cupid, seated in Venu´s lap, raises his face to kiss her. The two figures correspond precisely in pose to those in a painting by Cambiaso of Venus and Cupid accompanied by a satyr in a landscape in the Palazzo Belimbau, Genoa. However, in the painting, the figures are seated on a piece of drapery rather than on clouds.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Virginia, Art Services International, 2008, p.274

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Inventory number: D001905
Author: Anonymous (Follower of: Luca Cambiaso)
Title: Venus and Cupid
Date: XVI century
Technique: Pencil; Grey-brown ink; Pencil ground
Support: Paper
Dimension: Height: 362 mm; Width: 270 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. 274.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Art Services International, Virginia, 2008, pp. 274.

Other inventories +

Inv. Legado Pedro Fernández Durán, 1931. Núm. 539.

Inscriptions +

32. trentadue (margen superior derecho de la página del Álbum, de mano del coleccionista de la "doble numeración")
Inscribed in pen and brown ink. Support

Quaranta (margen derecho de la página del Álbum, un propietario italiano posterior ha numerado el dibujo)
Inscribed. Support

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

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