The painting depicts Venus and Cupid in front of a landscape. Apart from a hat and numerous necklaces Venus weas only a transparent veil, which winds around her lower left arm and the lower part of her body. She holds it in her left hand. With her right hand she
The painting depicts Venus and Cupid in front of a landscape. Apart from a hat and numerous necklaces Venus weas only a transparent veil, which winds around her lower left arm and the lower part of her body. She holds it in her left hand. With her right hand she gestures in Cupid's direction. He stands on the left edge of the painting and looks up at Venus. In his right hand he holds a honeycomb.
- Attributions
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Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop
Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attributions
Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop | [Cat. Kronach 2014, No. 95] |
Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, revised 2010] |
- Production date
- 1534
Production date
1534 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 49.5 x 34 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 49.5 x 34 cm
[Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, revised 2010]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia on the tree: winged serpent with elevated wings facing right and dated '1534'; in yellow paint
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia on the tree: winged serpent with elevated wings facing right and dated '1534'; in yellow paint
[Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, revised 2010]
- Inscriptions and Labels
- top left: illegible
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- top left:
illegible
- Owner
- Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
- Repository
- Fränkische Galerie, Kronach
- Location
- Kronach
- CDA ID
- DE_BStGS-FGK_15272
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_BStGS-FGK_15272/