The 50 plates / Plate 39 of 50
Plate 39 of 50
Frieze: The Crucifixion of Cupid
Fries: Kreuzigung Amors
Giulio Romano
Not yet located
The drawing
The third composition in Becker's series depicting the punishment of Cupid. At the center, a winged Cupid is bound to a tree, surrounded by women who gesture toward him, restrain him, or brandish implements of punishment. Figures at left and right raise rods and weapons, while others sit or kneel in the foreground. Classical architecture appears in the background, and handwritten labels identify several figures.
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
- Inscriptions naming the figures
- 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
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 39.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.