Cupid flying with the caduceus and winged helmet of Mercury. Etching by G. Audran, ca. 1675, after Raphael.

  • Raphael, 1483-1520.
Date:
[1675?]
Reference:
2897505i
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About this work

Publication/Creation

[À Paris (rue S. Jacques aux 2 piliers d'or)] : [G. Audran], [1675?]

Physical description

1 print : etching

Lettering

R.V. i. ; G.A. f. cum privil. Regis

References note

A.-P.-F. Robert-Dumesnil, Le peintre-graveur français, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française, tome 9, Paris 1865, p. 299, Gérard Audran no. 111 ("111 (7) Génie tenant un caducée. On lit au bas : R. V. I. — G. A. F.")
Roger-Armand Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome I, Paris 1939, p. 142, no. 119
G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, pp. 154-155, no. 28, and p. 632

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2897505i

Reproduction note

After frescoes by collaborators of Raphael in the lunettes of the Loggia of Psyche in the Villa Farnesina, Rome

Notes

The seventh print in a set of fourteen prints of cupids by Gérard Audran

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