Venus Anadyomene, Stefano Mulinari, after Baldassare Peruzzi, after Pietro da Cortona, after Rafaël, c. 1751 - c. 1790

Title(s)

Venus Anadyomene
Plafondschilderingen van de Loggia di Galatea in de Villa Farnesina te Rome (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-36.698

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Venus staat op een schelp terwijl zij water uit haar haren wringt ('Venus Anadyomene'). Om haar heen zes vogels, en links naast haar het teken Steenbok (Capricornus) van de dierenriem. In de ondermarge een tweeregelig vers in het Italiaans.

Artist

• print maker: Stefano Mulinari (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Baldassare Peruzzi
• after drawing by: Pietro da Cortona (rejected attribution)
• after painting by: Rafaël (rejected attribution)

Place

print maker: Italy
after painting by: Rome
after drawing by: Italy
after painting by: Italy

Dating

c. 1751 - c. 1790

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / aquatint

Measurements

height 330 mm × width 233 mm

What

• Capricorn (zodiacal sign of December)
• birth of Venus; Venus Anadyomene: after Uranus' castration Venus rises from the sea wringing the water from her hair; usually she is awaited by the Hours

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain