Time (Chronos) Entrusting Cupid to Venus
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1757
name: label: Artist
content: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727 – 1804
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The male figure of Chronos, Time, shown in profile with wings and a long beard at left, lowers the baby Cupid onto a rock. The goddess Venus sits at the rock's summit, facing forward, sandals on her feet and jewelry at her neck, her face turned towards Chronos and the baby. She sits upon a pile of drapery. Behind her, another nude female figure kneels. Behind the two women are two cupids at left, one carrying a horn, and a soldier with decorated shield at right. In the foreground, at right, a snake curls around the edge of a broken wagon axel, a white bird prepares to alight on the ground below the snake. In the background at right, a rocky landscape with architectural ruins. The figure of a vulture on a pedestal at right, caryatid figure at right edge.
place: label: made in
content: Venice, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-57-245
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, white gouache, over black chalk on brown laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 43.5 × 56.5 cm (17 1/8 × 22 1/4 in.)