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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.94
People
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, French (Bordeaux 1807 - 1876 Menton)
Title
Venus Disarming Cupid
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Venus and Cupid / Les seductions de l'amour
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1857
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230576

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
67.1 x 43.1 cm (26 7/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l. in black paint: N-Diaz-57

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Edward Brandus, New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1900, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
1939.94
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, ed. Edward Waldo Forbes, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1939), vol. 9, no. 1, November, p. 19, p. 19
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 105; repr. no. 293

Verification Level

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