Mezzetin "Paints" a Portrait of Cupid by Cutting the Canvas to Reveal Harlequin

c. 1729

Johann Jacob Schübler

Artist, German, 1689 - 1741

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink and gray wash on laid paper; scored for transfer

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 13.4 x 18.5 cm (5 1/4 x 7 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1990.4.2


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Inscriptions

lower right in pen and black ink: 7.

Wikidata ID

Q64582037


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