Study for an Overdoor Painting, Cupid Removes a Thorn from the Foot of Venus, Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on paper, lined, Figure of a woman (Venus), shown in profile, sits on the ground, turned toward left and leaning with her back against an elevation of rock. Her expression is full of pain--she gestures with her right hand to express further suffering. Her left arm holds her left leg, and Cupid tries to remove a thorn from the sole of her foot. Framing line in pen and brown ink. Squared in graphite., Bologna, Italy, 1707

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