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Venus and Cupid

Primary (Nîmes, France, 1700–Castel Gandolfo, Italy, 1777)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1755
MediumBlack and white chalk with stumping on blue laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 9 7/16 × 14 9/16 in. (23.9 × 37 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1251
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.1251
On View
Not on view
Exhibitions
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Holy Family
Charles-Joseph Natoire
1735
Scene from Roman History
Formerly attributed to Jacques Augustin Pajou
circa 1760-1780
Venus and Cupid with River Gods
School of Fontainebleau
1550
Drapery Study for a Female Figure with Her Arm Raised
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
circa 1735-38
Mercury with Nymphs and Satyrs
François Verdier
circa 1690s
Saint John the Baptist
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
circa 1720
Aspasia among the Philosophers of Greece
Michel Corneille, the younger
circa 1699
Dido and Aeneas
François Le Moyne
circa 1721
Mucius Scaevola Putting His Hand in the Fire
François Boucher
circa 1726-1728