Venus Disarming Cupid
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot · 1852/57 · Charcoal, with stumping, scraping and erasing, heightened with white gouache, on dark cream wove paper with inclusions
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Venus Disarming Cupid is a public-domain drawing by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, dated 1852/57. Charcoal, with stumping, scraping and erasing, heightened with white gouache, on dark cream wove paper with inclusions. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Venus Disarming Cupid” (1852/57) is the kind of softly lit landscape Corot sketched on the spot in Italy or France and then assembled in the studio.
About the artist
Camille Corot (1796–1875) was a French landscape painter. He sketched in Italy and France, then built silvery, softly lit woodland pictures in the studio that were widely copied.
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