File:Lucas Cranach d. Ä. - Venus mit Amor als Honigdieb (Metropolitan Museum of Art).jpg

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anonymous: Venus with Cupid the Honey Thief  wikidata:Q20180801 reasonator:Q20180801
Artist
After Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
After 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
Work location
Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q191748
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
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
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Venus and Cupid Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people
Date between 1580 and 1620
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1580-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1620-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on oak wood
Dimensions height: 36.3 cm (14.2 in); width: 25.2 cm (9.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,36.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,25.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
room 953
Accession number
1975.1.135
Object history Z. M. Hackenbroch, Frankfurt, 1928; Mrs. A. E. Goodhart, from whom acquired by Robert Lehman
Credit line Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Inscriptions

Signed and dated by copyist, at left, on tree trunk [Cranach's winged serpent insignia with elevated wings and dated '1530']
Text top left:


DVM PVER ALVEOLO FVRATVR MELLA CVPIDO. / FVRANTI DIGITVM SEDVLA PVNXIT APIS. / SIC ETIAM NOBIS BREVIS ET MORITVRA VOLVPTAS / QVAM PETIMVS TRISTI MIXTA DOLORE NOCET
[As Cupid was stealing honey from the hive / A bee stung the thief on the finger / And so do we seek transitory and dangerous pleasures / That are mixed with sadness and bring us pain]
Notes Friedländer, Rosenberg (1978) No.: -
References Cranach Digital Archive
RKDimages, Art-work number 264819
Source/Photographer Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 459077)

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