Jean Baptiste Camille Corot. Venus Disarming Cupid. 1852–1862. France. Charcoal, with stumping, scraping and erasing, heightened with white gouache, on dark cream wove paper with inclusions 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.

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Size: 2036px × 3000px
Photo credit: © WBC ART / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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