File:Cranach il vecchio, venere e cupido col favo di miele, 1529.JPG

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Lucas Cranach the Elder: Venus and Cupid stealing honey  wikidata:Q63064363 reasonator:Q63064363
Artist
Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alternative names
Lucas Cranach
Description -German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death 4 October 1472 Edit this at Wikidata 16 October 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kronach Weimar
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artist QS:P170,Q191748
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Title

Venus and Cupid, the Honey Thief

label QS:Lit,"Venere ed Amore/Cupido con un favo di miele"
label QS:Lfr,"Vénus avec Cupidon le voleur de miel"
label QS:Lnl,"Venus en Cupido de honing dief"
label QS:Lru,"Венера с Амуром мед вор"
label QS:Lde,"Venus mit Amor als Honigdieb"
label QS:Len,"Venus and Cupid, the Honey Thief"
label QS:Lda,"Venus og Cupido som honningtyv"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Depicted people Venus Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1529
date QS:P571,+1529-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil and tempera on beech wood
Dimensions height: 38.7 cm (15.2 in); width: 25.2 cm (9.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,38.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,25.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q180788
Current location
not on view
Accession number
NG6680
Object history

collection Sir Herbert Cook, Richmond
collection

Drue Heinz
Exhibition history Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loans to Celebrate the "New" European Paintings Galleries, (2013-2018), inventory number L.2013.30
Credit line A gift from the Drue Heinz Charitable Trust, 2018
Inscriptions Latin: DVM FVER ALVEOLO FVRATVRMELLA CVPIDO FVRANTI DIGITVM … etc.
(English: As the Infant Cupid was stealing honey from the hollow, the bee stung the thief on the finger. Thus does brief and transitory pleasure harm us too: it is mingled with sharp pain.)

signed wis winged serpent and dated 1529 (lower right)
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