The painting depicts the Goddess Venus standing against a backdrop of shrubbery; she is scantily concealed by a veil that falls over her shoulders and arms. Venus looks out at the viewer and points with her right hand to her son, Cupid. He has stolen a honeycomb from a knothole
The painting depicts the Goddess Venus standing against a backdrop of shrubbery; she is scantily concealed by a veil that falls over her shoulders and arms. Venus looks out at the viewer and points with her right hand to her son, Cupid. He has stolen a honeycomb from a knothole in the tree at the left edge of the painting and as a consequence is being attacked by bees. However, Cupid seems by and large undisturbed by this and tastes the honey with a finger.
[Görres, cda 2016]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attribution
| Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 400] |
- Production date
- about 1540
Production date
| about 1540 | [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 400] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 50 x 33 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 50 x 33 cm
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 400]
- Signature / Dating
None
- Inscriptions and Labels
- text block at the top left : (the text is almost illegible, but by comparison with other versions of …
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- text block at the top left : (the text is almost illegible, but by comparison with other versions of the same subject by Cranach it can be reconstructed as follows:
'DVM PVER ALVEOLO FVRATVR MELLA CVPIDO / FVRANTI DIGITVM SEDVLA PVNXIT APIS / SIC ETIAM NOBIS BREVIS ET MORITVRA VOLVPTAS / QVAM PETIMVS TRISTI MIXTA DOLORE NOCET'
[cda 2016]
- Owner
- Private Collection
- Repository
- Private Collection
- CDA ID
- PRIVATE_NONE-P156
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR400
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P156/
- text block at the top left : (the text is almost illegible, but by comparison with other versions of …