File:Cranach il vecchio, venere e cupido col favo di miele, 1529.JPG
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Summary
Object
Lucas Cranach the Elder: Venus and Cupid stealing honey
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| Title |
Venus and Cupid, the Honey Thief |
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| Object type |
painting  |
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| Genre |
mythological painting |
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| Description | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Depicted people |
Venus |
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| Date | 1529 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil and tempera on beech wood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 38.7 cm (15.2 in); width: 25.2 cm (9.9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
not on view |
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| Accession number |
NG6680 |
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| Object history |
collection Sir Herbert Cook, Richmond |
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| Exhibition history | Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loans to Celebrate the "New" European Paintings Galleries, (2013-2018), inventory number L.2013.30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | A gift from the Drue Heinz Charitable Trust, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions |
Latin: DVM FVER ALVEOLO FVRATVRMELLA CVPIDO FVRANTI DIGITVM … etc.(English: As the Infant Cupid was stealing honey from the hollow, the bee stung the thief on the finger. Thus does brief and transitory pleasure harm us too: it is mingled with sharp pain.) signed wis winged serpent and dated 1529 (lower right) |
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Photograph
| Date | Taken on 23 January 2014, 20:49:47 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
| Source | Own work |
| Author | Sailko |
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:   This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
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