Venus Disarming Cupid
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
1852–1862
- Medium
- Charcoal, with stumping, scraping and erasing, heightened with white gouache, on dark cream wove paper with inclusions
- Dimensions
- 38.7 × 25.8 cm (15 1/4 × 10 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- charcoal
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
prints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)charcoal
About
This drawing takes its subject and composition from Corot’s painting A Nymph Playing with a Cupid (1857; Musée d’Orsay, Paris), exhibited at the Salon of 1857—the first time the artist had shown a work at the Salon featuring a female nude. He apparently made this drawing for his close friend and fellow painter Constant Dutilleux.
