Slapende Amor, Bartolommeo Coriolano, after Guido Reni, c. 1609 - 1676

Title(s)

Slapende Amor

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-30.999

Catalogue reference

• Takahatake 17
• The Illustrated Bartsch 2
• Bartsch 2

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Buste van een slapende Amor met op de voorgrond zijn boog.

Artist

• print maker: Bartolommeo Coriolano
• after design by: Guido Reni

Place

Italy

Dating

c. 1609 - 1676

Material

• paper

Technique

chiaroscuro woodcut

Measurements

height 293 mm × width 372 mm

What

• sleeping Cupid; possibly signifying a slackening of Love's influence
• sleeping; unconsciousness

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Italian chiaroscuro woodcuts, Caroline Karpinski, dl. 48, p. 172, cat.nr. 2
• Le peintre graveur: [vol. 12: les clair-obscurs des maîtres italiens], Adam von, 1757-1821 Bartsch, dl. 12, p. 107, cat.nr. 2
• N. Takahatake, 'Coriolano', Print Quarterly 27 (2010), p. 103-130, cat.nr. 17.