After Parmigianino (Parma 1503-Casalmaggiore 1540)
Cupid Shaves his Bow c.1550
Oil on canvas | 145.1 x 86.2 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 402632
King's Gallery, Kensington Palace
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Cupid, seen standing from behind and below, is bent down as he shaves his bow. His head is turned back over his left shoulder to face the viewer but his gaze is distant. This is a copy, with variations and slightly enlarged, after a picture now in the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna. The copy appears to have been substantially repainted in the seventeenth century but the figure is close in technique and probably date to the original, and seems to be by an Emilian artist c. 1550.
Provenance
Acquired by Charles I; recorded by Abraham van der Doort in 1639 at Nonesuch Palace (no 4); sold for £4 from there to De la Mare on 28 June 1650 (no 1); recovered at the Restoration and listed in the Green Chamber next the Bedchamber at Whitehall in 1666 (no 262)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
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145.1 x 86.2 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
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