id:			151818
accession number:	1984.15
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.15
updated:		2025-04-29 11:06:20.213000

Cupid Complaining to Venus, c. 1540–46. Peter Flötner (German, 1485–1546). Lead; overall: 6.8 x 9.2 cm (2 11/16 x 3 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1984.15

title:				Cupid Complaining to Venus
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creation date:			c. 1540–46
creation date earliest:		1535
creation date latest:		1551
current location:		114 Late Northern Renaissance
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Germany, Nuremberg
technique:	lead
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Peter Flötner (German, 1485–1546)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 6.8 x 9.2 cm (2 11/16 x 3 5/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review for 1984
	opening date:   1985-04-03T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review for 1984</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Probably Max Rosenheim, 1849-1911 (Vienna, Austria) and/or Maurice Rosenheim, died 1922 (England).
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	Cyril Humphris, Ltd. (London, England).
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	Blumka Gallery (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1984.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1984.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 2 (April 1985): 163–207.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 181; Mentioned: p. 200, no. 10
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159897

	Winter, Patrick M. de. “Recent Accessions of Italian Renaissance Decorative Arts, Part II.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 4 (April 1986): 142–182.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 160-161, fig. 175
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159938

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