drawing
- Museum number
- 1875,0814.1178
- Description
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Motto with Cupids in the form of a frieze, No 1; fourteen Cupids playing about the Roman capital letters 'T I M'
Red chalk, squared for transfer
- Production date
- 1655-1711
- Dimensions
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Height: 147 millimetres
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Width: 365 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- One of three similar designs, traditionally attributed to De Lairesse but rejected by Alain Roy in the catalogue raisonné; see A. Roy, 'Gérard de Lairesse (1640-1711)', Paris, 1992, cat.nos.D.R.172-174 (as 'dessins de qualité médiocre et/ou sans aucun rapport avec le style de Lairesse').
For the two other studies at the British Museum, see also 1875,0814.1179-1180.
See also a similar study of alphabet letters in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv.nos.8507A and 9102B; J. Shoaf Turner and C. White, 'Dutch & Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum', London, 2014, cat.no.104.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1875,0814.1178