Study for an Overdoor Painting, Cupid Removes a Thorn from the Foot of Venus
date: label: Date
content: 1707
name: label: Designer
content: Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure of a woman (Venus), shown in profile, sits on the ground, turned toward left and leaning with her back against an elevation of rock. Her expression is full of pain--she gestures with her right hand to express further suffering. Her left arm holds her left leg, and Cupid tries to remove a thorn from the sole of her foot. Framing line in pen and brown ink. Squared in graphite.
place: label: made in
content: Bologna, 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: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-6435
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, graphite on paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: 12.5 × 22.3 cm (4 15/16 × 8 3/4 in.)