About this artwork
This drawing takes its subject and composition from Corot’s painting A Nymph Playing with a Cupid (1857; Musée d’Orsay, Paris), exhibited at the Salon of 1857—the first time the artist had shown a work at the Salon featuring a female nude. He apparently made this drawing for his close friend and fellow painter Constant Dutilleux.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
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Title
- Venus Disarming Cupid
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1852–1862
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Medium
- Charcoal, with stumping, scraping and erasing, heightened with white gouache, on dark cream wove paper with inclusions
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Dimensions
- 38.7 × 25.8 cm (15 1/4 × 10 3/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
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Reference Number
- 2010.342
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/203631/manifest.json
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