Psyche Asks Proserpine to Put a Little of her Beauty in an Urn for Venus
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1781
name: label: Artist
content: Johann August Nahl The Younger, German, 1752 - 1825
label: After
content: Giulio Romano, Italian, 1499–1546
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Drawing after a fresco devised by Giulio Romano in the Palazzo del Te in Manuta. Pluto sits beside Proserpine. Two Erynis, one of them with Cerberus, and probably Charon are looking on. Without indication of the locality. The lower and part of the upper framing of the lunette are indicated.
place: label: made in
content: Germany
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1897-9-15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Lead pencil, pen and dark ink, brush and black and gray watercolors on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 26.9 × 41.5 cm (10 9/16 × 16 5/16 in.)