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Mars, Venus and Cupid

Mars, Venus and Cupid, 1508

Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian, 1487-1534

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

Image and sheet: 11 3/4 × 8 1/4 inches (29.8 × 21 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S901

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Engraving (printing process)

Engraving (print)

Signed, center lower edge of image: [artist's monogram]

Inscribed, in plate, lower right edge: 1508 16 D

Comte Octave de Behague (Paris, France)

June 1885, Robert M. Lindsay. Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Shoemaker, I. H. The Engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi. Exh. cat., Spencer Museum of Art and Ackland Art Museum. Lawrence, KS, and Chapel Hill, NC, 1981, pp. 76-79, no. 13.

Marcantonio Raimondi, Mars, Venus and Cupid, 1508, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S901.