Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus (Reynolds)
Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus | |
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![]() The Hermitage copy. | |
Artist | Joshua Reynolds |
Year | 1784 (copies 1785 and 1788) |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Location | Tate Britain (copies in Soane Museum and Hermitage Museum) |
Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus (originally entitled A Nymph and Cupid: ‘The Snake in the Grass’ or The Snake in the Grass, or Love unloosing the zone of Beauty; later also known as Love and Beauty and Cupid Untying the Girdle of Venus) is a painting by Joshua Reynolds[1]. It shows Cupid untying the girdle of his mother Venus - the latter was modelled on Emma Hart.
The earliest version was that exhibited in 1784 and bought by the Tate Gallery in 1871[2] A 1785 autograph copy made for Reynolds' niece the Marchioness of Thomond was bought at the sale of her collection in May 1821 by Sir John Soane - it is thus now in the Soane Museum[3]. In 1788 Lord Carysfort commissioned an autograph copy to present to Prince Grigory Potemkin, which is now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg[4][5][6].
References
- ↑ http://noticias.universia.es/en-portada/noticia/2012/07/16/950675/nacia-sir-joshua-reynolds.html
- ↑ "Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus". Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ↑ "The Snake in the Grass; or Love unloosing the zone of Beauty". Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ↑ "Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus". Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ↑ "WGA - Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus". Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ↑ "Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus". Retrieved 2018-04-16.