Twelve playing cupids

Title

Twelve playing cupids

Draughtsman

• Louis Félix de La Rue

Period Produced

• 18th century

School

• Late Baroque
• Early Classicism

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• graphite?
• Vergé paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• pencil drawing
• graphite drawing?

Geographic Reference

• French

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• figure study
• composition study

Captions Added Later

Verso unten rechts Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Institution

• Städel Museum

Administration

• 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'
• 43C719 rough-and-tumble; fighting