Cleveland Museum of Art
Hymn to Venus
Louis Felix de la RueLinkedCulture matchlcp-752c75f8e2e0
- Date
- c. 1760–65
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink over red chalk (?) on antique laid paper
- Culture
- France, 18th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 87277
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Louis Félix de La Rue came from a family of artists and was best known for creating designs for decorative arts, such as ceramics. This sheet—which features putti and bacchantes, the artist’s preferred subjects—likely served such a purpose, given its allover composition and focus on patterning and symmetry. The verso of this drawing is covered in the artist’s calculations and notations, suggesting that he reused a sheet found in his studio to create it.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Provenance
- ?-1990: (C. and J. Goodfriend, New York, NY) | 1990-2008: Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH | December 2, 2019: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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