Venus and Cupid

Venus and Cupid

RP-T-1981-346

• draftsman (artist): attributed to Jan Pietersz. Zomer
• draftsman (artist): Govert Flinck [rejected attribution]

c. 1660 - c. 1665

black and white chalk on light-brown cartridge paper; framing line in brown ink

height 315 mm x width 216 mm

purchase 1981

Public domain

Inv.; …; the dealer R. Valls, London, as Govaert Flinck, 1976;{Dealer cat. Valls 1976, pp. 38-9, no. 48 illustrated.} …; sale, the Lord Bolton, the late N.D. Newall Esq., et al. [anonymous section], London (Christie’s), 11 December 1979, no. 250, as Attributed to Govaert Flinck, illustrated, £ 350;{Copy RMA.} …; sale, D.G. van Beuningen of ‘Noorderheide’, Vierhouten, Trustees of the Stoneleigh Settlement and other sources [not section van Beuningen, not section Stoneleigh Settlement], Amsterdam (Christie’s), 16 November 1981, no. 35, as Attributed to Govaert Flinck, fl. 1,400, to the museum

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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