Venus and Mars Served by Cupid and the Three Graces, c. 1547

Not on View

etching on laid paper

plate: 28.7 × 43.4 cm (11 5/16 × 17 1/16 in.)

sheet: 29 × 43.6 cm (11 7/16 × 17 3/16 in.)

Zerner 1969, no. 74

2016.160.1

Léon Davent (artist) French, active 1540 - 1556

Luca Penni (artist after) Italian, 1500/1504 - 1556

lower right in plate: LD; by later hand, lower right verso in pen and ink: H(?) 243

(Paul Prouté, S. A., Paris); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Prouté, S.A., Paul

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.

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821: no. 52

1969: Zerner, Henri. Ecole de Fontainebleau, gravures.Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1969. English ed. The School of Fontainebleau, etchings and engravings. London: Thames and Hudson, 1969: no. 74.