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drawing
Object Type
drawing
Museum number
1946,0713.1025
Description
Venus and Cupid before Jupiter; seated on the clouds, Venus and Cupid to left, Mars, Apollo and Diana behind, Minerva, Neptune, Vulcan and other gods to right Pen and brown ink, with grey wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, on two sheets overlaid
Producer name
Drawn by:
Abraham van Diepenbeeck
Formerly attributed to:
Theodoor van Thulden
School/style
Flemish
Production date
1611-1675
Materials
paper
Technique
drawn
Dimensions
Height:
144 millimetres
Width:
203 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
In Phillipps-Fenwick as T van Thulden.
Bibliographic references
Phillipps-Fenwick 1935 / Catalogue of drawings in the collection of T Fitzroy Phillipps-Fenwick
(p.200(1))
Location
Not on display
Subjects
classical mythology
classical deity
Associated names
Representation of:
Aphrodite/Venus
Representation of:
Eros/Cupid
Representation of:
Ares/Mars
Representation of:
Apollo
Representation of:
Artemis/Diana
Representation of:
Athena/Minerva
Representation of:
Poseidon/Neptune
Representation of:
Hephaistos/Vulcan
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Count Antoine Seilern
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Samuel Woodburn
(Christie's, 14.vi.1860/1486 as 'a boy's head by Visscher &c.', 4 in the lot, bt 'Boone' £1-18-0)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Henry George Bohn
(?)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Sir Thomas Phillipps
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick
Acquisition date
1946
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1946,0713.1025
Conservation
Treatment
: 24 Apr 1996