Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus

Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus
The Hermitage copy.
ArtistJoshua Reynolds
Year1784 (copies 1785 and 1788)
Mediumoil on canvas
Location
  • Tate Britain (copies in Soane Museum and Hermitage Museum)

Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus (originally entitled A Nymph and Cupid: 'The Snake in the Grass' or The Snake in the Grass, or Love unloosing the zone of Beauty; later also known as Love and Beauty and Cupid Untying the Girdle of Venus) is a painting by Joshua Reynolds.[1] It shows Cupid untying the girdle of his mother Venus – the latter was modelled on Emma Hart.

Provenance

The earliest version was that exhibited in 1784 and bought by the Tate Gallery in 1871.[2] A 1785 autograph copy made for Reynolds' niece the Marchioness of Thomond was bought at the sale of her collection in May 1821 by Sir John Soane – it is thus now in the Soane Museum.[3] In 1788, Lord Carysfort commissioned an autograph copy to present to Prince Grigory Potemkin, which is now in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Nacía Sir Joshua Reynolds". Universia España. Archived from the original on 17 April 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus". Tate. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "The Snake in the Grass; or Love unloosing the zone of Beauty". Sir John Soane's Museum London. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus". Hermitage Museum. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  6. ↑ "Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus". Useum. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
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