Lucas_Cranach_d.Ä._-_Amor_beklagt_sich_bei_Venus_(National_Gallery,_London).jpg
Summary
Lucas Cranach the Elder : Cupid Complaining to Venus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
Cupid Complaining to Venus
label QS:Lit,"Cupido con un favo di miele"
label QS:Lja,"ヴィーナスに訴えるキューピッド"
label QS:Lfr,"Vénus avec Cupidon le voleur de miel"
label QS:Larz,"كيوبيد يشكو الى فينوس"
label QS:Lru,"Венера с Амуром мед вор"
label QS:Luk,"Венера і Купідон (картина Кранаха Старшого)"
label QS:Lnl,"Venus en Cupido de honing dief"
label QS:Lzh,"丘比特向维纳斯抱怨"
label QS:Les,"Venus y Cupido ladrón de miel"
label QS:Len,"Cupid Complaining to Venus"
label QS:Lsv,"Venus och Amor"
label QS:Lda,"Venus og Cupido som honningtyv."
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Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | mythological painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date |
between circa 1526 and circa 1527
date QS:P,+1526-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1526-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1527-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium | oil on panel medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259 , c. 2011 transferred on to a new support | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 81.3 cm (32 in)
; width: 54.6 cm (21.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,+81.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+54.6U174728
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q180788
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Current location |
room 4
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Accession number |
NG6344
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National Gallery
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Object history |
by 1909
date QS:P,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Emil Goldschmidt
date QS:P,+1933-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1933-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: transferred to
Hermann Göring
(1898-1946), Carinhall
circa 1945
date QS:P,+1945-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
: transferred to Unterstein,
Berchtesgadener Land
Unknown date
Unknown date
: given to Mrs. Patricia Lochridge Hartwell (†1998)
1963: purchased by the National Gallery, London , from E. & A. Silberman (art dealer), New York City , for GBP 34,000 |
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Inscriptions |
Artist's insignia bottom centre, on a stone: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing left; in black paint
DVM PVER ALVE[...] IN C[...] FVRAN[...]DIGITVM CV [...]IS SIC ETIAM [...] BREVI [...] TA QVAM [...]IMVS TRI[...] T [...]DOLOR N[...]ET
(As Cupid was stealing honey from the hive / A bee stung the thief on the finger / And so do we seek transitory and dangerous pleasures / That are mixed with sadness and bring us pain) Metropolitan Museum lucas-cranach-d-ae-venus-und-amor-als-honigdieb |
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Notes | Friedländer, Rosenberg (1978) Nr.: FR246L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References |
National Gallery, London - online catalogue
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Cranach Digital Archive Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Gemälde alter Meister: Sammlung aus dem Nachlass Emil Goldschmidt, Frankfurt a.M. Dienstag, den 27. April 1909 (Katalog Nr. 1547) — Berlin, 1909 |
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Source/Photographer |
1.
Web Gallery of Art
2. nevsepic.com.ua |
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Annotations
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This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
DVM PVER ALVE[...] IN C[...]
FVRAN[...]DIGITVM CV [...]IS
SIC ETIAM [...] BREVI [...] TA
QVAM [...]IMVS TRI[...] T [...]DOLOR N[...]ET
Lucas Cranach the Elder
, Venus and Cupid, the Honey Thief
inscriptions: dvm puer alveoli fvratvr mell a cvpido, / fvranti digitvm sedvla pvnxit apis. / sic etiam nobis brevis et moritvra volvptas / qvam petimvs tristi mixta dolore nocet
(As Cupid was stealing honey from the hive / A bee stung the thief on the finger / And so do we seek transitory and dangerous pleasures / That are mixed with sadness and bring us pain)
Metropolitan Museum
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