M9793: Venus and Cupid

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M9793

People

Nicolò Boldrini, Italian (1510 - after 1566)
After Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Italian (Pieve di Cadore, Italy c. 1488 - 1576 Venice, Italy)

Title

Venus and Cupid

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1566

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/257579

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Woodcut printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened, soiled, and laid down

Technique

Woodcut

Dimensions

block: 31.5 × 23.3 cm (12 3/8 × 9 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower left corner on a block of stone: TITIANVS INV / Nicolans Boldrinus / Vincentinus inci / debat .1566.
• inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions on the verso of the secondary support: S[within a circle] S. / EO [cataloguing by the donor, Horace Swope] / a64550 mn / 126, 29
• collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite:
  THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 13,385 [Lugt 936]
  

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Horace M. Swope, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1940

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Bartsch XII, sec. 7, 29; Rosand & Muraro 72B

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Horace M. Swope, Class of 1905

Accession Year

1940

Object Number

M9793

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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