The 50 plates / Plate 40 of 50
Plate 40 of 50
Frieze: The Crucifixion of Cupid
Fries: Kreuzigung Amors
Giulio Romano
Not yet located
The drawing
The fourth composition in Becker's series depicting the punishment of Cupid. Several women surround the winged figure of Cupid at the base of a tree, bending over him and apparently preparing to inflict punishment. Two women stand at left, one raising a rod, while another figure approaches from behind. At right, a seated woman lifts a flaming torch beside a tall pyramidal structure. Architectural details and handwritten annotations appear throughout the scene.
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; the four sheets mounted together on canvas
- 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 to this exact drawing has been established.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 40.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.