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Cupid
Unknown Artist (Possibly after Albrecht Dürer)16th Century
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
This winged cupid with antlers belongs to the popular sixteenth-century tradition of Lüsterweibchen or Leuchterweibchen chandeliers. This design for a chandelier is thought to have been a copy of a drawing in the Kunstbuch von Nürnberg (Art book of Nuremberg) formerly attributed to Dürer. The book also includes Dürer’s drawing, dated 1513, of a siren-like chandelier woman for his friend the humanist Willibald Pirckheimer.
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Details
- Title: Cupid
- Creator: Unknown Artist (Possibly after Albrecht Dürer)
- Date Created: 16th Century
- Physical Dimensions: 18.1/17.2 × 17 cm
- Technique and Material: Pen in black ink, brush and brown, blue, and red, preliminary drawing in pencil
- Provenance: Old inventory, first inventoried in 1963
- Museum: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett
- Inv.-No.: C 1963-1941
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-845516
- External Link: http://www.skd.museum/de/museen-institutionen/residenzschloss/kupferstich-kabinett/
- Copyright: Photo © Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett/ Herbert Boswank cat. no. 75 / Claudia Schnitzer
- Artist Dates: unknown
- Artist Biography: unknown
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