Venus Disarming Cupid | Harvard Art Museums

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

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