Cupid Stealing Venus's Floral Crown

1705/1708

Antoine Coypel

Artist, French, 1661 - 1722

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    orange-red, white, and black chalk, squared for transfer in black chalk, on blue laid paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

  • Dimensions

    overall: 32.9 x 24.1 cm (12 15/16 x 9 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.11.11

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Baron Louis-Auguste de Schwiter [1805-1889] (Lugt 1768), Paris (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 20-21 April 1883, lot 26); (Strölin et Bayser, Paris); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, by 1973; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1973

  • Woodner Collection II: Old Master Drawings from the XV to the XVIII Century, William H. Schab Gallery, New York and tour, 1973-74, no. 92.

1983

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour, 1983-85, no. 57.

1986

  • Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 92.

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, and Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1986, no. 77.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 75.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 95.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 76 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli).

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007 (no cat.).

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 90-91, 279-280, 2009, no. 36 (color).

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

2023

  • Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

1983

  • Matteson, Lynn R. "Old Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection." Pantheon. XLI (1983): 386-87.

1989

  • Garnier, Nicole. Antoine Coypel (1661-1722). Paris, 1989: no. 414.

2013

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "The Attribution of the Fauns: Restoring a Group of Trois-crayons Drawings to Louis de Boullogne the Younger." Master Drawings 51 (Winter 2013): 473, 477, fig. 4 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in pen and brown ink: 84; by later hand on mount, center left in graphite: Coypel

Wikidata ID

Q64536215

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