The 50 plates / Plate 32 of 50
Plate 32 of 50
Study for Venus and Cupid
Studie zu Venus und Amor
Pietro Perugino
Not yet located
The drawing
A delicate drawing of Venus standing beside the infant Cupid. Venus lowers her gaze toward the child and extends one hand in his direction, while her flowing garments curl around her body and feet. Cupid stands nude at her side, looking downward with his hands raised near his chest.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Pietro Perugino
- Title as printed
- Studie zu Venus und Amor
- Title in English
- Study for Venus and Cupid
- Medium and size
- Reed pen in brown ink on white paper, 30 × 20.7 cm
- Collection in 1922
- Julius Böhler jun., Munich
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Pietro Perugino, as attributed by Becker. No independent modern attribution to this exact sheet has been verified.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 32.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.