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'Venus Friget' (Terence, Eunuch 9.732)

Drawing
late 16th - early 17th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Bloemaert, Abraham (artist)
Place of origin
Netherlands (drawn)

Cupid gathering fruit from a tree branch, which Venus holds; Drawn with a pen, washed with bistre, on grey paper, and heightened with white.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
Title'Venus Friget' (Terence, <i>Eunuch</i> 9.732) (published title)
Materials and techniques
Drawn with a pen, washed with bistre, on grey paper, and heightened with white
Pen
Bistre
Grey Paper
Drawing
Wash Technique
Heightening
Brief description
Drawing, 'Venus Friget' (Terence, Eunuch 9.732)', by Abraham Bloemart, cupid gathering fruit from a tree branch, which Venus holds; drawn with a pen, washed with bistre, on grey paper, and heightened with white; Dutch School; Late 16th - early 17th century.
Physical description
Cupid gathering fruit from a tree branch, which Venus holds; Drawn with a pen, washed with bistre, on grey paper, and heightened with white.
Dimensions
  • Height: 172 millimetres
  • Width: 126 millimetres
Style
Dutch School
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with museum's Dyce inv. no.), 396. Inscribed on mount, in pencil: at lower left (now nearly illegible), 13; on separate fragment glued on at lower centre, Bloemaart; and at lower right, in a nineteenth-century hand (with Dyce's original inv. no.), 210.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Subjects depicted
Tree
Cupid
Venus
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. I, Cat. 32, illus. p.75.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.396

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
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