Venus with Cupid and Putto

Prints and Drawings

1527/30

Attributed to Parmigianino
Italian, 1503-1540

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Parmigianino
Title: Venus with Cupid and Putto
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1527–1530
Medium: Red chalk, heightened with white, with traces of incising, on brown laid paper, laid down on cream card
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "Parmigianino"; lower left on mount, in pen and brown ink: "27"; inscribed verso, lower left on mount, in graphite: "Parmigianino"
Dimensions: 28.8 × 20.9 cm (11 3/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Benjamin F. Stein
Reference Number: 1960.359
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Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 173-74, no. 224 (ill.).

Sir Joshua Reynolds [stamp (Lugt 2364) recto, lower left, in black]. Given by Mrs. Benjamin F. Stein, Highland Park, Ill., to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1960.

McCullagh & Giles 224

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