id: 107189 accession number: 1925.1188 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.1188 updated: 2019-07-26 08:00:07.310000 Venus and Cupid in a Chariot, 1615-1617. 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: 1615-1617 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 (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 (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 10-30, 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: 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-April 1, 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-March 26, 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: 1986-12-15T05:00:00 Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 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 (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * --- PROVENANCE [Colnaghi]. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: 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 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Gordon Bailey Washburn, 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: Reproduced: cat. no. 38 url: Smith College, and Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy. Italian Drawing, 1330-1780, Smith College Museum of Art. [Northampton, Mass.]: [Press-work by A. Wilson], 1941. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 42 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: Harvard University Press, 1949. page number: Mentioned cat. no. 34, 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: Cummings, Frederick J. Art in Italy, 1600-1700. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts; distributed by H.N. Abrams, New York, 1965. page number: Mentioned: cat. no 103, Reproduced 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 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 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: cat. no 23, p. 51-52, Rerproduced p. 52, cover url: Stone, David M., and Guercino. Guercino, Master Draftsman: Works from North American Collections. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Art Museums, 1991. page number: Referenced: cat. no. 2, p. 4, Reproduced, p. 5 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 14, p. 3, pp. 48-49, 285, Reproduced p. 49 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