The 50 plates / Plate 38 of 50
Plate 38 of 50
Frieze: The Crucifixion of Cupid
Fries: Kreuzigung Amors
Giulio Romano
Not yet located
The drawing
The second composition in Becker's series depicting the punishment of Cupid. At left, a winged Cupid appears beside a tree, while another winged figure approaches a group of women gathered among classical architectural elements. A standing woman raises both arms near the center, and several seated figures occupy the right side. Handwritten annotations and a block of text appear within the composition.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Giulio Romano
- Title as printed
- Fries: Kreuzigung Amors
- Title in English
- Frieze: The Crucifixion of Cupid
- Medium and size
- Pen with gray-yellow wash, 26 × 35 cm
- Inscription
- Italian verse on an altar panel
- Collection in 1922
- Formerly Prof. A. Grahl, Dresden (same frieze as plate 37)
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
- Giulio Romano, as attributed by Becker. No independent modern attribution of this exact drawing has been verified.
The sheet in this copy
An extended handwritten passage in Italian appears on a rectangular panel at lower left, apparently referring to Love (Amore), desire, and death. Its full transcription, authorship, and date remain unverified.
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 38.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.