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| Keywords: Jean de Court - Venus and Cupid - Walters 44352.jpg Venus bearing a torch is represented nude except for a cape hung around her shoulders together with her attending son Cupid who with his right hand covers the nudity of his mother Both figures stand on a scroll base under a fanciful canopy flanked by two pairs of flaming hearts and two doves Two other birds flutter above the smoke rising from the flaming hearts At left and right are grotesque monsters and snails Below the cartouche two old winged satyrs squat obscenely A globe is beneath them At the top of the canopy is a grotesque cherub mask Above the head of Venus is the signature I C ca 1560 painted translucent and semi-opaque enamel on foils on copper cm 13 10 2 accession number 44 352 28089 William T / Henry Walters Collection Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T or Henry Walters place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Limoges painted enamels in the Walters Art Museum Jean Decourt Venus and Cupid Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
