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Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99), Venus Chiding Cupid, 1784
- Title:
Venus Chiding Cupid
- Date:
- 1784
- Medium:
- Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 5/8 × 10 1/8 inches (29.6 × 25.7 cm), Image: 9 1/2 × 8 1/16 inches (24.2 × 20.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower right: "Juer 1000 - 1590 - 1597 (1000 and 1590 crossed out) | Proof | C494 III/V | (IR31/494)"
Lettered in brown ink, along lower left border of oval image: "Sir Joshua Reynolds pinxt,,"; along lower right border of oval image: "F,, Bartolozzi fecit. [o-shaped mark]"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.573
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- arrows | boys | brothers | children | clouds | curls | family | goddess | gods | guilt | love | mathematics | mother | mythology | nude | numbers | oval | portrait | punishing | punishment | putto | religious and mythological subject | Roman | sadness | scroll (information artifact) | smiling | sons | Venus punishing Cupid | wings | woman
- Associated People:
- Venus
Anteros
Cupid - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:40772
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