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Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
Artist:
Date:
ca. 1750
Location:
Not on display
Century:
Media:
Black Chalk Heightened With White Chalk On Tan Laid Handmade Paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 373 x 309 mm (14 11/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
Department:
Object Type:
Country:
Continent:
Europe
Provenance:
Collections: Cogswell #93(Hellman #312); M.L. Schiff
Provenance: Joseph Green Cogswell; Mortimer Leo Schiff; Moore S. Achenbach;
Cogswell no. , Hellman no. as (George S. Hellman, Original Drawings by the Old Masters:
Accession Number:
1963.24.237
Acquisition Date:
1963-04-09
Credit Line:
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
THREE WINGED ALLEGORICAL FIGURES, gestures of angels, floating on a cloud, one angel holds a halo and torch, female angel poses with elegant outstretched arm, breasts exposed, companion beside her reaches in other direction with a bowl uplifted, cloth covers all genitalia.
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