Johann Friedrich Bause and Carlo Cignani
Venus and Amor
1774
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 492 x 364 mm. (19 3/8 x 14 5/16 in.)
Plate: 492 x 276 mm. (19 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.10788
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Garrett Collection; T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "Carlo Cignani pinxit."; below image, lower right, in plate "Ioh. Fried. Bause sculp. Lipsiae 1775"; below image, center, in plate "VENUS und AMOR / Dem Durchlauchtigsten Herzege und Herrn, Herrn ERNST, / regierendem Herzogu zu Sachsen-Gotha und Altenburg"; below image, lower left below title, in plate "Das Original ist in dem Cabinette des M. Gittfr. Winckler in Leipzig"; below image, lower right below title, in plate "unterthänigst zugeeignet, von / Johann Friedrich Bause." Verso: lower left, in graphite diamond with "10116"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
