Venus training up Cupid. Etching by L. Boullogne the elder after Titian.
- Titian, approximately 1488-1576.
- Date:
- 1600-1699
- Reference:
- 2124991i
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About this work
Description
She blindfolds Cupid (because love is blind), while two other people bring his bow and a quiver of arrows
Publication/Creation
1600-1699
Physical description
1 print : etching ; image and border 17.6 x 25.2 cm
Lettering
Titianus inventor. L. Bo. paris. fecit Roma. Super. per.
Lettering attributes the etching to L[udovicus] [Bo[ullogne] paris[iensis], and states publication approval "super[iorum] per[missu]" (with approval of the government)
References note
Sir Abraham Hume, Notices of the life and works of Titian, London: J. Rodwell, 1829, p. xlix (as by "L. Bo. Ba.rus")
Roger-Armand Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome II, Paris 1951, p. 58, no. 12 (as "Vénus et les amours")
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2124991i
Reproduction note
After: a painting by Titian in the Borghese Gallery, Rome, engraved with lettering "Omnia vincit amor"
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Location Status Access Closed stores