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Lucas Cranach the Elder: Venus and Cupid  wikidata:Q111662887 reasonator:Q111662887
Artist
Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alternative names
Lucas Cranach
Description -German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death 4 October 1472 Edit this at Wikidata 16 October 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kronach Weimar
Work location
Lutherstadt Wittenberg
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artist QS:P170,Q191748
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Title
German:
Venus und Amor Edit this at Wikidata

Venus and Cupid
label QS:Lfr,"Vénus et Cupidon"
label QS:Lde,"Venus und Amor"
label QS:Len,"Venus and Cupid"
label QS:Lru,"Венера и Амур"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Venus and Cupid Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people
Date circa 1525
date QS:P571,+1525-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paint on beech wood
Dimensions height: 39 cm (15.3 in); width: 26 cm (10.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,39U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,26U174728
institution QS:P195,Q20638782
Accession number
CVCSC 0339-N
Object history

J. Chenue, London (Witt Library mount);
A.G.H. Ward, London (Witt Library mount);
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (d. 1926);
Thence by inheritance to his daughter, Suse Paret, later Bernfeld, Menton, France;
With Paul Cassirer Gallery, Amsterdam, by whom bought from the above in September 1934;
Dr. Alfred Hausamann, Zurich, by whom bought from the above in April 1936, and thence by direct descent;

With Walter Feichenfeldt, Zurich, 2001, from whom acquired by the formerly owner.
sold 07 July 2005 by Sotheby's London, auction L05031, Lot-Nr. 25
Inscriptions signed lower left on the socle with the artist's device of a winged serpent and indistinctly dated: 1525
Notes Friedländer, Rosenberg (1978) Nr.: FR246M
References Compton Verney Art Gallery
Cranach Digital Archive
Art UK
Source/Photographer Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork


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