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Historiated Portrait of a Woman as Venus with Cupid

Drawing
late 17th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Kneller, Godfrey (Sir, Bt) (artist)
Place of origin
Holland (drawn)

Design for a portrait in a circle; A maiden standing, half length, holding a wreath in her right hand. With her left hand she takes flowers from a basket held by Cupid


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Designs
Object type
Drawing
TitleHistoriated Portrait of a Woman as Venus with Cupid (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash; double framing line in brown ink
Pen
Brown Ink
Brown Wash
Paper
Drawing
Wash Technique
Brief description
Drawing 'Historiated Portrait of a Woman as Venus with Cupid', Anonymous Dutch(?), pen and brown ink, late 17th century
Physical description
Design for a portrait in a circle; A maiden standing, half length, holding a wreath in her right hand. With her left hand she takes flowers from a basket held by Cupid
Dimensions
  • Full sheet height: 160mm
  • Full sheet width: 133mm
  • Roundel diameter: 132mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • 380 (Inscribed in brown ink, at lower right (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.))
  • … Possins(?) (Inscribed in brown ink, at lower centre (mostly effaced))
  • Kneller (Inscribed on the mount, in pencil, at lower left)
  • 531 (Inscribed on the mount, in pencil, at lower right, in a nineteenth-century hand (with the original Dyce inv. no.))
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières, Comte de Caylus (1692–1765), Paris (L. 474);1 Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Subjects depicted
Woman
Wreath
Basket
Flowers
Cupid
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. 617, illus.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.380

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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