Venus teaching Cupid to read, both nude in a landscape

Mauro Gandolfi Italian

After Pelagio Palagi Italian

ca. 1800–34

Not on view

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Title: Venus teaching Cupid to read, both nude in a landscape
Artist: Mauro Gandolfi (Italian, Bologna 1764–1834 Bologna)
Artist: After Pelagio Palagi (Italian, Bologna (?) 1775/77–1860 Turin)
Date: ca. 1800–34
Medium: Engraving; proof
Dimensions: Plate: 20 11/16 × 18 3/8 in. (52.6 × 46.6 cm)
Sheet: 26 1/4 × 22 1/16 in. (66.7 × 56 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Harry S. Newman, 1941
Object Number: 41.97.377
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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