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Half-length Nude Woman Holding a Child (?Venus and Cupid)

Drawing
early-mid 17th century (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Muller, Jan Harmensz (artist)
Place of origin
Netherlands (drawn)

Study to the waist of a nude woman holding a child to her bosom; An oval design for an engraving.


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Designs
Object type
Drawing
TitleHalf-length Nude Woman Holding a Child (?Venus and Cupid) (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink; framing line in brown ink
Pen
Paper
Drawing
Brief description
Drawing 'Half-length Nude Woman Holding a Child (?Venus and Cupid)', Anonymous Dutch(?), pen and brown ink, early to mid 17th century
Physical description
Study to the waist of a nude woman holding a child to her bosom; An oval design for an engraving.
Dimensions
  • Height: 384mm
  • Width: 280mm
oval
Style
Dutch School
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • 391 (Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.))
  • Goltzius or Muller? (Inscribed on old plain Dyce mount, in pencil, at lower right corner, by Dyce)
  • 220 (Inscribed on old plain Dyce mount, in pencil, above lower right corner inscription, in a nineteenth-century hand (with Dyce’s original inv. no.))
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869
Subjects depicted
Woman
Child
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. II, Cat. 611, illus. p.553.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.391

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O239348/half-length-nude-woman-holding-drawing-unknown/
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