Venus Bathing, with Cupid and Psyche

c. 1510–20

Medium	pen and brown ink, squared with black chalk on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 10 9/16 x 15 1/8 in. (26.8 x 38.4 cm)
Object Number	1955.1411
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

School of Titian, Venus Bathing, with Cupid and Psyche, c. 1510–20, pen and brown ink, squared with black chalk on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1411

Select Bibliography

London: Grosvenor Gallery.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. Fernandez, Rafael. A Scene of Light and Glory: Approaches to Venice. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1982. John Postle Heseltine.. Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Schools of North Italy in the Collection of J. P. H.. London.. 1906.. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

Provenance

Sir Thomas Lawrence (according to Esdaile sale catalogue); William Esdaile (L. 2617; sale London, Christie, Original Drawings by Claude and Titian from Sir Thomas Lawrence's Collection, June 30, 1840, no. 138);* R. P. Roupell (L. 2234, on reverse; sale, London, Christie, July 12–14, 1887, no. 867 {as Titian}); J. P. Heseltine (L. 1507, on reverse); Colnaghi, London (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1913). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.