Lot 8
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Provenance
Acquired by Henry Blundell before 1803, and by inheritance
Literature
Ince Catalogue, 1803, p.227, no.LII, 'Mars and Venus. They are instructing Cupid. This picture has been called an original by Titian; but in the Orleans collection there was a fine one on this subject by that master, from which this appears to be a copy'

Lot Essay

The original, once in the Orléans Collection as Titian, is now in the Kress Collection at the El Paso Museum of Art, Texas (H. E. Wethey, The Paintings of Titian, III, The Mythological and Historical Paintings, 1975, pp.223-4, no.X-43, and pl.231)

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