Lorenzo Lotto
Venus and Cupid
c. 1513-2292.4 x 111.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right, on tree trunk: Laurento. Loto
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in honor of Marietta Tree, 1986
Literature
Collection catalogues
Everett Fahy (ed.), The Wrightsman pictures, New York; New Haven, 2005, nr. 2
Literature
Andreas Prater, Venus at her mirror, Munich; Berlin; London; New York, 2002, p. 32
Pierre Rosenberg, Only in America, Milano, 2006, pp. 56-57
Provenance
?Granet collection, Paris, in 1912
private collection, Switzerland, until 1986
with Adrian Ward-Jackson, New York, 1986, sold to MMA
Other works by Lorenzo Lotto
Portrait of an Architect
Portrait of a Man
c. 1535
c. 1535
Andrea Odoni
1527
1527
A Maiden's Dream
c. 1505
c. 1505
Saint Christopher