Cupid (fragment)

Cupid (fragment)

Title

Cupid (fragment)

[cda 2020]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Lost Art Internet Database, Lost Art-ID 584410; accessed 26.02.2020]

The fragment shows a full-length figure of Cupid as a winged, nude child. He has inclined his head to look up at his mother Venus. In an attempt to ward off the bees swarming around him he has raised his left hand to his forehead. Still holding the honeycomb in

The fragment shows a full-length figure of Cupid as a winged, nude child. He has inclined his head to look up at his mother Venus. In an attempt to ward off the bees swarming around him he has raised his left hand to his forehead. Still holding the honeycomb in his right hand he stands on a narrow strip of ground in front of the tree from which he has taken the honeycomb. Only a small section of the leg of Venus is still visible at the right.

Attributions
Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder
Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder

[cda 2020]

Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder

'School of Lucas Cranach the Elder'
[Lost Art Internet Database: http://www.lostart.de/DE/Verlust/584410; accessed 26.02.2020]

Production dates
153[1]?
about 1600 or later

Production dates

153[1]?

[dated, not authentic]

about 1600 or later

[cda 2020]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 78 x 34 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 78 x 34 cm

  • [Lost Art Internet Database: http://www.lostart.de/DE/Verlust/584410; accessed 26.02.2020]

  • Dimensions of support: 79 x 38 cm

  • [handwritten annotation on the reverse of a B/W photograph, Friedländer archive]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia on the tree trunk at the bottom left: serpent with elevated wings, facing right between the date '15 3[?]'

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia on the tree trunk at the bottom left: serpent with elevated wings, facing right between the date '15 3[?]'

  • (not genuine)

Inscriptions and Labels

none On the reverse: - label with inventory number [Goudstikker Inv. no. 2914] and seal

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

  • none

Stamps, Seals, Labels:
Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P325
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P325/

Provenance

  • Cupid (fragment), 153[1]?

Images

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Versions

Venus with Cupid as a Honey Thief
  • Venus with Cupid as a Honey Thief, about 1500 - 1599
  • DE_BStGS_5466
  • Painting
  • Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Cupid as Honey Thief
  • Cupid as Honey Thief, about 1600 or later
  • DE_SKK_0811
  • Painting
  • Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

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