id: 107189 accession number: 1925.1188 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.1188 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:01.202000 Venus and Cupid in a Chariot, 1615–17. Guercino (Italian, 1591–1666). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over red chalk; sheet: 25.5 x 39.4 cm (10 1/16 x 15 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1925.1188 title: Venus and Cupid in a Chariot title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1615–17 creation date earliest: 1615 creation date latest: 1617 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Bologna, 17th century technique: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over red chalk department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Guercino (Italian, 1591–1666) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 25.5 x 39.4 cm (10 1/16 x 15 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(3) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: upper right, in brown ink: 44 . translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America opening date: 1935-01-01T05:00:00 Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (January 1-31, 1935). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1937-05-28T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-December 9, 1937). title: Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London opening date: 1938-09-30T04:00:00 Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 30-October 30, 1938). title: Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1939-01-04T05:00:00 Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939). title: Drawings by Old Italian Masters opening date: 1940-06-05T04:00:00 Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1941-03-04T05:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 27, 1941). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1941-07-22T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 22-October 26, 1941). title: Italian Drawings, 1330-1780 opening date: 1941-12-01T05:00:00 Italian Drawings, 1330-1780. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer) (December 1-20, 1941). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1942-06-17T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942). title: 50th Anniversary of the Museum's Opening opening date: 1948-04-09T05:00:00 50th Anniversary of the Museum's Opening. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (organizer) (April 9-May 16, 1948). title: Seventy Master Drawings opening date: 1948-11-27T05:00:00 Seventy Master Drawings. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (November 27, 1948-January 6, 1949). title: Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums opening date: 1950-06-01T04:00:00 Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (June 1-September 15, 1950). title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: Italian and French Drawings opening date: 1959-10-13T04:00:00 Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries opening date: 1960-05-18T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 18-October 11, 1960). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: Old Master Drawings opening date: 1964-03-10T05:00:00 Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964). title: Art in Italy, 1600-1700 opening date: 1965-04-06T05:00:00 Art in Italy, 1600-1700. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (April 6-May 9, 1965). title: Art in Italy, 1600-1700 opening date: 1965-04-06T05:00:00 Art in Italy, 1600-1700. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (April 6-May 9, 1965). title: Old Master Prints and Drawings opening date: 1966-07-29T04:00:00 Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1967-06-09T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968). title: Italian Prints and Drawings opening date: 1968-01-30T05:00:00 Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-February 25, 1968). title: Drawings opening date: 1968-06-11T04:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). title: Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions opening date: 1980-10-21T04:00:00 Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981). title: National Schools of Style opening date: 1983-06-14T04:00:00 National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). title: Baroque Imagery opening date: 1984-11-06T05:00:00 Baroque Imagery. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 1984-January 6, 1985). title: Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1986-12-16T05:00:00 Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987). title: Guercino: Master Draftsman: Works from North American Collections opening date: 1991-02-15T05:00:00 Guercino: Master Draftsman: Works from North American Collections. Harvard University Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (February 15-March 31, 1991); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.,, Canada (May 3-June 16, 1991); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 27-October 13, 1991). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, England) date: ?-1925 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: December 8, 1925 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Two miniscule female forms appear at the bottom edge of the sheet and may pertain to an earlier idea for the composition or to one of many other compositions Guercino conceived for the commission. digital description: Giovanni Francesco Barbiere, called Guercino, was a prolific draftsman who used drawing not only to prepare for his many painting commissions but also to record and explore his ideas for future use. This preparatory drawing, made early in his career, reflects Guercino's nonlinear preparatory process and his simultaneous work on different compositions. It relates in format to the painted decoration at the Casa Pannini in his native town of Cento, but it features Venus instead of Diana as in the finished fresco. Guercino's combination of rapid and sure pen lines with ink wash, applied with expert variegation to create deep shadows and bright highlights, is a paradigm of the artist's exuberant high Baroque style. wall description: This preparatory drawing is a study for one of Guercino's earliest major projects, the painted decoration at the Casa Pannini in his native town of Cento. Here we see Venus and Cupid in a chariot pulled by doves. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Washburn, Gordon Bailey, and Agnes Mongan. Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America; January, 1935, the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. [Buffalo, N.Y.]: [F.W. Burow], 1935. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: cat. no. 38 url: Kennedy, Ruth Wedgwood. Italian Drawing, 1330-1780, Smith College Museum of Art. [Northampton, MA.]: [Press-work by A. Wilson], 1941. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 42 url: Tietze, Hans. European Master Drawings in the United States. New York: J.J. Augustin, 1947. page number: Mentioned: p. 114, n. 57; Reproduced: p. 115 url: Worcester Art Museum. Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Art of Europe During the XVIth-XVIIth Centuries. April 11 to May 16, 1948. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 45 url: Mongan, Agnes. One Hundred Master Drawings. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949. page number: Mentioned: p. 72; Reproduced: p. 73 url: Detroit Institute of Arts. Loan Exhibition of Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums: Detroit Institute of Arts, June 1-September 15, 1950. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1950. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 21 url: Marangoni, Matteo. Guercino. Milano: Aldo Martello, 1959. page number: Mentioned: p. 11, n. 8; Reproduced: n. 8 url: Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. "Old and Modern Drawings: A Drawing by Guercino." The Art Quarterly 26 (Summer 1963): 217-233. page number: Mentioned: pp. 217-233; Reproduced: p. 219, n. 1 url: Cummings, Frederick J. Art in Italy, 1600-1700. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965. page number: Mentioned: p. 101; Reproduced: p. 100 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 115 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n139 Roli, Renato. I fregi centesi del Guercino. Bologna: R. Pàtron, 1968. page number: Mentioned: p. 77, note 89 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 115 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n139 Mahon, Denis. Il Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591-1666): catalogo critico dei disegni: Bologna, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, 1 settembre-18 novembre 1968. Bologna: Alfa, 1969. page number: Mentioned: p. 48 url: Bottari, Stefano, Renato Roli, and Anna Ottani Cavina. Guercino: Disegni. Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1972. page number: Mentioned: p. 4, n. 21 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 136 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n156 Schloder, John E. Baroque Imagery. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1984. page number: Mentioned: pp. 51-52; Reproduced: p. 52, n. 23 url: Bagni, Prisco. Guercino a Cento: Le decorazioni di Casa Pannini. Bologna: Nuova Alfa, 1984. page number: Mentioned: pp. 141-150, 165, n. 119; Reproduced: p. 151 url: Salerno, Luigi. I dipinti del Guercino. Rome: Ugo Bozzi, 1988. page number: pp. 102-103 url: Mahon, Denis, and Nicholas Turner. The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle. Cambridge: Cambrdige University Press, 1989. page number: Mentioned: p. 1 url: Stone, David Marshall. "Theory and Practice in Seicento Art: The Example of Guercino." PhD diss., Harvard University, 1989. page number: Mentioned: pp. 233-236; Reproduced: fig. 40 url: Stone, David M. Guercino, Master Draftsman: Works from North American Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1991. page number: Mentioned: p. 4; Reproduced: p. 5 url: Mahon, Denis. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Il Guercino, 1591-1666: Disegni: Bologna, Museo civico archeologico, Cento, Pinacoteca civica e Chiesa del Rosario, 6 settembre-10 novembre 1991. Bologna: Nuova Alfa, 1991. page number: Mentioned: p. 28 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 88 url: Turner, Nicholas, Carol Plazzotta. Drawings by Guercino from British Collections, with an Appendix Describing the Drawings by Guercino, His School and His Followers in the British Museum. London: British Museum Press, 1991. page number: Mentioned: pp. 35-36 url: Stone, David M. Guercino: Catalogo completo dei dipinti. Florence: Cantini, 1991. page number: Mentioned: p. 38 url: DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: pp. 3, 48-49, 285; Reproduced p. 49, n. 14 url: Turner, Nicholas. The Paintings of Guercino: A Revised and Expanded Catalogue Raisonné. Roma: Ugo Bozzi Editore s.r.l., 2017. page number: Mentioned; p.289, cat. 30.87 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.1188/1925.1188_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.1188/1925.1188_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.1188/1925.1188_full.tif