Venus en Amor, Johann Friedrich Bause, after Carlo Cignani, 1775

Title(s)

Venus en Amor

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2001-229

Catalogue reference

• Nagler/Meyer III.160.12-3(3)
• Keil 11.12-3(3)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Artist

• print maker: Johann Friedrich Bause (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Carlo Cignani (mentioned on object)
• Johann Friedrich Bause (mentioned on object)
• Ernst II von Saksen-Gotha-Altenburg (mentioned on object)

Place

Leipzig

Dating

1775

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving / etching

Measurements

height 363 mm × width 274 mm

What

• Venus and Adonis as lovers

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

• Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, Julius Meyer, dl. 3, p. 160, cat.nr. 12
• Catalog des Kupferstichwerkes von Johann Friedrich Bause, Georg Keil, p. 11, cat.nr. 12