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Cupids Hunting

Maker

After
(artist)
1594-1665

(printmaker)
1723-1818

Title

Cupids Hunting

Date of Production

1779

Medium

etching and stipple
printed in black

Dimensions

Height: 30.3 cm
Width: 35.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6769

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords










Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Literature

Prints (Re)presenting Poussin
Fig. p. cat. 58

Nicolaus Poussin - Verzeichniss der nach seinen Gemälden Gefertigten... [usually refers to Courtauld Book Library copy with Anthony Blunt's annotations when there is a letter after the number]
Fig. p. 426

Inscriptions

Inscription: N. Poussin pinx.t //

Inscription: CUPIDS HUNTING. / Why the Timid Hare pursue? / Nobler Sport should be your View, / Strike the Victor from the Field, / To Almighty Love he'll yield. / Oct.r 20.th 1779. //

Inscription: W. Baillie Sculp.t //

Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //

Inscription: N. POUSSIN / Five Cupids Hunting / Part of large composition of Mars and Venus, q.v. / W. Baillie after Paintings and Drawings, Boydell, London. //

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