Venus Disarming Cupid
1852/57
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot French, 1796-1875
France
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.
Charcoal, with stumping, scraping and erasing, heightened with white gouache, on dark cream wove paper with inclusions