Venus and Amor

Venus and Amor

Title

Venus and Amor

[Princeton University, Art Museum, revised 2013]

Painting on beech wood

Medium

Painting on beech wood

[Klein, Report 1993]

Wood

[http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/european/search/] (accessed 18.04.2013)

Venus is depicted against a dark backdrop, standing frontally on stony ground and facing the viewer. Her long locks appear to waft in a breeze. She wears a delicate veil and a hairband set with pearls on her head. In addition she has a band set with pearls around her

Venus is depicted against a dark backdrop, standing frontally on stony ground and facing the viewer. Her long locks appear to waft in a breeze. She wears a delicate veil and a hairband set with pearls on her head. In addition she has a band set with pearls around her neck. A wispy veil is wound around her left elbow, and continues across her stomach to her right lower arm and is held with both hands so that it would conceal her vulva if it were not transparent. Cupid stands to the left of Venus with a bow and arrow, the quiver tied around him with a red strap and his eyes bound with a transparent cloth.

[Herrschaft, cda 2013]

Attribution
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[cda 2017]

Production dates
about 1520
about 1518 - 1520

Production dates

about 1520

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 116]

about 1518 - 1520

[Princeton University, Art Museum, revised 2013]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 101.5 x 37.5 cm (39 15/16 x 14 3/4 in.)

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 101.5 x 37.5 cm (39 15/16 x 14 3/4 in.)

  • [Princeton University, Art Museum, revised 2013]

  • Dimensions of support: 99 x 37 cm

  • [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 116]

Inscriptions and Labels
  • top edge: 'Oceani qvondam spvmis Venvs orta ferebat nvnc spvmis lvca vino renata tvis'

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

    • top edge:

  • 'Oceani qvondam spvmis Venvs orta ferebat nvnc spvmis lvca vino renata tvis'

Owner
Princeton University Art Museum
Repository
Princeton University Art Museum
Location
Princeton
CDA ID
US_PUAM_y1968-111
FR (1978) Nr.
FR116
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/US_PUAM_y1968-111/

Provenance

  • Amsterdam, collection Kleiweg van Zwaan
  • Amsterdam, Galerie J. Goudstikker
  • Paris, collection of Jean Dollfus (sale 01.04.1912, No. 1)
  • Paris, collection of Dr. Emile Isambert
  • 1968 gift of George L. Craig, Jr., Class of 1921, and Mrs. Craig
    [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 116]

Exhibitions

Rome 2010, No. 23

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Musial 2021
AuthorAleksander Musiał
TitleArtful foam. Social funcions and the making of erotic art in Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Venus and Cupid"
JournalRecord of the Art Museum, Princeton University
IssueVolume 77– 78 / 2017– 18
Year of Publication2021
Pages101-191
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Exhib. Cat. Rome 2010 204 - 206 No. 23 Pl. p. 205
EditorGalleria Borghese, Rome, Anna Coliva, Bernard Aikema
TitleCranach. L'altro rinascimento / a different renaissance, [Rome, Galleria Borghese 15 ottobre 2010 - 13 febbraio 2011]
Place of PublicationMilan
Year of Publication2010
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Werner 2010 39 30
AuthorElke Anna Werner
TitleKünstlerische Transferprozesse und mediale Strategien kultureller Aneignung. Cranach und Italien
Publicationin Guido Messling, ed., Die Welt des Lucas Cranach. Ein Künstler im Zeitalter von Dürer, Tizian und Metsys, Exhib. Cat. Brussels
Place of PublicationBrussels
Year of Publication2010
Pages30-41
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Werner 2007 104, 105, 106 7
AuthorElke Anna Werner
TitleDie Schleier der Venus. Zu einer Metapher des Sehens bei Lucas Cranach d. Ä.
Publicationin Bodo Brinkmann, ed., Cranach der Ältere, Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt
Place of PublicationOstfildern
Year of Publication2007
Pages99-109
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 No. 116
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974/1976 655
AuthorDieter Koepplin, Tilman Falk
TitleLukas Cranach. Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik
Volume1, 2
Place of PublicationBasel, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1974
Link http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-diglit-104522
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Koch 1969
AuthorRobert A. Koch
Title"Venus and Amor" by Lucas Cranach the Elder
JournalRecord of the Art Museum, Princeton University
Issue28
Year of Publication1969
Pages54-57
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 098e
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1932
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932
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  • Venus and Amor, about 1520

Images

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Documents

Technical studies

13.04.1993Scientific analysis

  • Identification of wood species / Dendrochronology

Support

Identification of wood species: beech wood

[Klein Report, 13.04.1993]

  • analysed by Peter Klein

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