Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French, 1796-1875
Venus Disarming Cupid
INV-2036
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French, 1796-18751852/57
Venus Disarming Cupid
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot French, 1796-1875 →charcoalpaper
Date
1852/57
Medium
Charcoal, with stumping, scraping and erasing, heightened with white gouache, on dark cream wove paper with inclusions
Dimensions
38.7 × 25.8 cm (15 1/4 × 10 3/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Regenstein Endowment Fund
This drawing takes its subject and composition from Corot’s painting A Nymph Playing with a Cupid (1857; Musée d’Orsay, Paris), exhibited at the Salon of 1857—the first time the artist had shown a work at the Salon featuring a female nude. He apparently made this drawing for his close friend and fellow painter Constant Dutilleux.
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