Live Auction 11787Old Master & British Drawings
Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-1642)
Lot 19

Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-1642)

Cupid pleading with Venus for his bow and arrows

Closed5 July 2016

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GBP 10,000

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Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-1642)
Cupid pleading with Venus for his bow and arrows
pen and brown ink, watermark cross, the lower corners cut
6 3/8 x 8¼ in. (16.1 x 20.9 cm.)

Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445).

Specialist note

A painting by Reni of the same subject but of different composition is in the Toledo Museum of Art (Inv. 1972.86; S.D. Pepper, Guido Reni: A complete catalogue of his works with an introductory text, Oxford, 1984, no. 110, pl. 136 and IX). Another painting showing Venus and Cupid, previously given to Reni, but now attributed to his school, is in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden (Inv. 324; H. Marx, Illustrierte Gesamtverzeichnis, Cologne, 2005, II, no. 1458).