Venus with Cupid

Venus with Cupid

about 1500
Artist
Attributed to
Girolamo di Benvenuto, Italian, 1470-1524
Country
Italy
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on panel
Accession Number
1961.172
Credit Line
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Attributed to Girolamo di Benvenuto, Venus and Cupid, about 1500. Oil paint on panel; 20 1/2 × 20 in. (52.1 × 50.8 cm). Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1961.172

Dimensions
diameter: 27.5 in, 69.8500 cm; frame depth: 3.25 in, 8.2550 cm; diameter: 20.25 in, 51.4350 cm; image height: 20 1/2 in, 52.0700 cm; image width: 20 in, 50.8000 cm
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
This object is currently on view
Known Provenance
Count della Gherardesca, Florence. (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863 1955] on 4 March 1932 as Matteo Balducci; gift to the National Gallery of Art in 1939; deaccessioned in 1952 and returned to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; gifted to Denver Art Museum in 1961