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Venus with Cupid and a lute player

Intermediary draftsman Antoine Borel French
ca. 1786
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Venus with Cupid and a lute player
  • Series/Portfolio: Galerie du Palais Royal
  • Artist: Jacques Bouillard (French, Versailles 1744–1806 Paris)
  • Artist: Intermediary draftsman Antoine Borel (French, Paris 1743–after 1810)
  • Artist: After Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Pieve di Cadore ca. 1485/90?–1576 Venice)
  • Date: ca. 1786
  • Medium: Engraving
  • Dimensions: Image: 6 1/4 × 8 1/8 in. (15.9 × 20.7 cm)
    Sheet (Trimmed): 7 1/2 × 8 11/16 in. (19 × 22 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942
  • Object Number: 42.119.304(18)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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