Venus Disarming Cupid
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot · 1852/57 · Art Institute of Chicago
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This drawing takes its subject and composition from Corot’s painting A Nymph Playing with a Cupid (1857; Musée d’Orsay, Paris), exhibited at the Salon of 1857—the first time the artist had shown a work at the Salon featuring a female nude. He apparently made this drawing for his close friend and fellow painter Constant Dutilleux.
The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Details
- Maker
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French, 1796-1875
- Date
- 1852/57
- Medium
- Charcoal, with stumping, scraping and erasing, heightened with white gouache, on dark cream wove paper with inclusions
- Dimensions
- 38.7 × 25.8 cm (15 1/4 × 10 3/16 in.)
- Place of origin
- France
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view
- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
Image: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0
