id:			144846
accession number:	1969.70
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.70
updated:		2019-11-18 11:19:19.162000

Cupid Drawing His Bow, c. 1560s. Federico Barocci (Italian, 1528-1612). Black chalk with pastel (stumped in places), heightened with white chalk, squared with black chalk; framing lines in graphite; sheet: 42.4 x 27.2 cm (16 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen and Delia E. Holden Funds 1969.70

title:				Cupid Drawing His Bow
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creation date:			c. 1560s
creation date earliest:		1560
creation date latest:		1569
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen and Delia E. Holden Funds
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culture:	Italy, 16th century
technique:	black chalk with pastel (stumped in places), heightened with white chalk, squared with black chalk; framing lines in graphite
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Italian
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Federico Barocci (Italian, 1528-1612)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 42.4 x 27.2 cm (16 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	gray-green laid paper, laid down on cream(3) wove paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	lower left, in brown ink: [illegible]; verso, upper left, in graphite: 4 [circled]; upper center left, incised: adamid[i?] bl / hotel f[o?] / Chateau Front[as?]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1969
	opening date:   1970-01-27T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1969</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (January 27-February 22, 1970).

	title:		Italian Drawings Selected From Mid-Western Collections
	opening date:   1972-02-25T05:00:00
	<i>Italian Drawings Selected From Mid-Western Collections</i>. Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (organizer) (February 25-April 16, 1972).

	title:		The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles
	opening date:   1979-03-06T05:00:00
	<i>The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).

	title:		Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions
	opening date:   1980-10-21T04:00:00
	<i>Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981).

	title:		Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650
	opening date:   1991-08-27T04:00:00
	<i>Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).

	title:		Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2000-08-27T00:00:00
	<i>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. 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).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 117): October 7, 2013 - January 21, 2014.

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PROVENANCE

	Giuseppe Vallardi, Milan (Lugt 1223, lower left, in blue ink); A. Mouriau, Belgium (Lugt 1853, lower left, in black ink); [his sale, Paris, 11 March 1858, no. 21]. Unidentified collector's stamp, upper left, black ink. [Nathan Chaikin, until 1969].
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wall description: 
This drawing appears to have been made in preparation for a picture representing Venus seated in the heavens with Cupid on her knee as he draws his bow to aim at an unsuspecting mortal below. Some scholars have questioned the authorship of this drawing, but its similarity to other early sheets by the artist suggests that it was indeed made by Barocci.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 38-39, p. 284; Reproduced: p. 39
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