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Venus and Cupid
Lucas Cranach, the Elder (German, 1472–1553)
1506
Medium/Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
Other (woodcut border): 28.1 x 19.9 cm (11 1/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP18963
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (relief) 113; Hollstein 105 (II)
State
II
Signed
Signed and dated on tablet hanging from tree, upper right: L/[winged serpent]/1506/C
Marks
Watermark [not identified]; verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; purple Parker Collection MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 18963 [Lugt 1870]; in graphite: 113
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.