Cupid and the Three Graces
Inverted and reduced copy of a print by Marcantonio Raimondi of the fresco by Raphael at the Farnesina in Rome, depicting Cupid, winged, on the right, leaning on the arch of a cupola (?), and the Three Graces, to his left, sitting on clouds floating at the intersections between to cupolas.
Artwork Details
- Title: Cupid and the Three Graces
- Artist: Etienne Delaune (French, Orléans 1518/19–1583 Strasbourg)
- Artist: After Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))
- Artist: After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)
- Date: before 1573
- Medium: Engraving: late undescribed state
- Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 4 5/8 × 3 3/8 in. (11.7 × 8.5 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962
- Object Number: 62.635.766
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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