The painting depicts Venus and Cupid in front of a landscape. Venus is wearing a red wide brimmed hat, a choker, a chain and only has a transparent veil wrapped around her upper left arm and the lower stomach, which she holds with her pointed fingers. The child Cupid wards
The painting depicts Venus and Cupid in front of a landscape. Venus is wearing a red wide brimmed hat, a choker, a chain and only has a transparent veil wrapped around her upper left arm and the lower stomach, which she holds with her pointed fingers. The child Cupid wards off the bees that attempt to sting him after he stole the honeycomb and looks up to Venus seeking help.
[Görres, cda 2016]
- Attribution
- Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attribution
| Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Cat. New York 2013, 92] |
- Production date
- after 1607
Production date
| after 1607 | [Cat. New York 2013, 92] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 37.9 x 25.3 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 37.9 x 25.3 cm
[Cat. New York 2013, 92]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia on the tree trunk: serpent with elevated wings and dated '1530'
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia on the tree trunk: serpent with elevated wings and dated '1530'
- Inscriptions and Labels
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at the top left:
'DVM PVER ALVEOLO FVRATVR MELLA CVPIDO, / FVRANTI DIGITVM SEDVLA PVNXIT APIS. / SIC ETIAM …Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- at the top left:
'DVM PVER ALVEOLO FVRATVR MELLA CVPIDO, / FVRANTI DIGITVM SEDVLA PVNXIT APIS. / SIC ETIAM NOBIS BREVIS ET MORITVRA VOLVPTAS / QVAM PETIMVS TRISTI MIXTA DOLORE NOCET'
(As Cupid was stealing honey from the hive / A bee stung the thief on the finger / And so do we seek transitory and dangerous pleasures / That are mixed with sadness and bring us pain)
[Cat. New York 2013, 90]
Stamps, Seals, Labels:
- on the reverse of the ornamental frame: in black pen: 'A 17284',
remnants of white chalk (not legible);
printed / handwritten label (Sotheby's Brussels): 'BE 000 638, EOMP, ID ST8NK';
handwritten label with blue boarder, barely legible;
two printed labels, with pink mark: 'ID No. 002L10036', 'ID No. 003L10036';
- on the reverse of the panel:
yellowed, damaged paper, typewritten: description of the painting in Swedish;
black paint, stenciled: 'AM728';
in white chalk: 'AM728', 'G', 'LOT 71 [...]';
printed / handwritten label (Sotheby's Brussels): 'BE 000 638, EOMP, ID ST8NK';
printed label: 'CHRISTINA, Queen of Sweden, XI. Exhibition of the Council of Europe, NATIONALMUSEUM STOCKHOLM 1966, 1289'
- Owner
- Private Collection
- Repository
- Private Collection
- CDA ID
- PRIVATE_NONE-P154
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P154/
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