David Teniers the Younger

Venus and Cupid

David Teniers the Younger
Venus and Cupid

Non visible

These two small paintings are copies of Italian works. The scene of blind people stumbling into a hole is copied from a painting by Domenico Fetti, and the painting of Venus and Cupid from a work by Paris Bordone.

Teniers made the copies so that etchings could be made from them. They were intended for his Theatrum Pictorium, a book about Italian paintings in the archducal collection in Brussels.

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David Teniers the Younger
Venus and Cupid

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Détails

Informations générales
David Teniers the Younger (Antwerp 1610 - 1690 Brussels)
Venus and Cupid
painting
1161
Détails des matériaux et techniques
oil
panel
17 x 23 cm
Inscriptions
on the verso: Paris Bordone . pi.

Origine

Probably in the artist's studio estate; John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Castle, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire; sale London, 26 June 1886, lot 178-179 (with inv. no. 1161); Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London; Maison Artz, The Hague; Mr. Dr. J.C. Overvoorde (1865-1930), Wassenaar; gift of his widow, J. Overvoorde-Gordon to the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden (inv. no. S 643), 1939; on loan to the Mauritshuis, since 2009