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
Marsilio Cassotti and his Wife Faustina
1523
1523
Portrait of an Architect
c. 1540
c. 1540
Portrait of Giovanni della Volta with his Wife and Children
1547
1547
Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia
c. 1530-32
c. 1530-32
Fra Gregorio Belo of Vicenza
1546-47
1546-47