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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.249
People
Unidentified Artist
After Paolo Caliari, called Veronese, Italian (Verona, Italy 1528 - 1588 Venice, Italy)
Title
Venus and Cupid
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
16th century
Culture
Italian, Venetian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230559

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
104.5 x 78.1 cm (41 1/8 x 30 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul J. Sachs and Edward W. Forbes, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul J. Sachs and Edward W. Forbes
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
1939.249
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 38 [as by Veronese]
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)

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