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Attributed to Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish, 1577–1640
Venus and Cupid
1617–1618
Image Caption
Attributed to Peter Paul Rubens, Venus and Cupid, 1617–1618, pen and brown ink and gray wash on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1838
Medium
pen and brown ink and gray wash on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 5 1/16 x 4 5/16 in. (12.9 x 11 cm)
Object Number
1955.1838
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Ludwig Burchard and R. A. d'Hulst.. Rubens Drawings.. Brussels: Arcade Press.. 1863.. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art.. Rubenism. Jan. 30-Feb. 23, 1975. Marianne Bernhard.. Rubens, Handzeichnungen.. Munich: Südwest Verlag.. 1977.. Birmingham (AL) Museum of Art. Rubens and Humanism. April 15-May 28, 1978. Ganz, James A. "Old Masters in the Clark Collection, Part II: Prints and Drawings" The Magazine Antiques 62, no. 4 (October 1997): 51015.
Provenance
Colnaghi, London (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1919 {as by Van Dyck}).