Hovering cupids

Title

Hovering cupids

Draughtsman

• Jacob de Wit

Part Number / Total

4 / 4

Period Produced

• 18th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• chalk?
• Vergé paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• washing
• pencil drawing
• chalk drawing?

Geographic Reference

• Netherlandish

Production Reason

• ceiling painting design
• sketch

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert und bezeichnet unten rechts (mit der Feder in Grau): Jdwit [unleserlich] 7 [?]

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet unten mittig (mit der Feder in Grau): [beschnitten]cken[?] Jnt[?] graeum[?] byt[?] blaffon / [beschnitten und von einem Klebestreifen verdeckt] CHack 1735 geschildert
Verso mittig Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• historical narration
• mythological representation

Primary

• 92D1916 cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'
• 46C121 carrying something
• 31A2763 floating in the air
• 92L18(THYRSUS) thyrsus ~ attribute of Bacchus
• 47I4222 bunch of grapes