Venus Disarming Cupid

Prints and Drawings

1852/57

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French, 1796-1875

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.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Title: Venus Disarming Cupid
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
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Medium: Charcoal, with stumping, scraping and erasing, heightened with white gouache, on dark cream wove paper with inclusions
Dimensions: 38.7 × 25.8 cm (15 1/4 × 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Regenstein Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2010.342
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