Venus and Cupid

Details

Studio of Paris Bordone (Treviso 1500-1571 Venice)
Venus and Cupid
oil on canvas
32 5/8 x 52 in. (82.8 x 132.1 cm.)

Provenance

Acquired by the Countess Nadia de Navarro, Glen Head, New York, by 1968.

Literature

E. Martini, "Paris Bordon e la ritrovata pala di Santa Martina", Arte illustrata, VII, 12, July-December 1968, pp. 25-6, note 12, as Paris Bordone.
A. Donati, Paris Bordone, Soncino, 2014, pp. 351-53, no.142.2, fig. 142.2.

Lot Essay

In his recent catalogue raisonné, Andrea Donati describes this painting as a workshop variant of a composition for which the prime version might be lost (loc. cit.). The scholar proposes that the painting of this subject in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, might be the original, with the qualification that it too might be a workshop copy (ibid., no. 142).

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