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Jacob de Wit: Venus, Bacchus and Ceres observing the sleeping Cupid   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jacob de Wit  (1695–1754)  wikidata:Q3117749
 
Jacob de Wit
Description Dutch painter, drawer and etcher
Date of birth/death 19 December 1695 (baptised) 12 November 1754 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Amsterdam Amsterdam
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Amsterdam (1708), Antwerp (1709-1714), Amsterdam (1716-1754)
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artist QS:P170,Q3117749
Title
Venus, Bacchus and Ceres observing the sleeping Cupid
Date 18th century
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium Red chalk and point of the brush and red and brown washes, with touches of black ink, within two sets of brown ink framing lines;
Dimensions height: 218 cm (85.8 in); width: 260 cm (102.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,218U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,260U174728
Inscriptions signed in black ink: JdeWit invt and bears old attribution in brown ink on the mount: De Witte
Source/Photographer Sotheby's
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