File:Copy after Lucas Cranach (I) - Venus with Cupid stealing honey (Sotheby's 2021).jpg

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anonymous: Venus with Cupid the Honey Thief  wikidata:Q116968046 reasonator:Q116968046
Artist
Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
Follower of 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,P1775,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 early 17th century
date QS:P571,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
(after 1607
date QS:P571,+1607-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1607-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
)
Medium oil on oak wood
Dimensions height: 37.8 cm (14.8 in); width: 25.2 cm (9.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,37.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,25.2U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history Probably the Emperor Rudolph II, Prague, where to be identified in his inventory of 1612 as no. 1138 or 1293
Looted by the Swedes after the sack of Prague, 1648
Queen Christina of Sweden, and listed in the 1652 inventory of her collection as no. 167 or 217
Ugglas of Forsmark
Countess Elisabeth Björnstjerna
C. M. Björnstjerna
Marie Björnstjerna, Stockholm
Count Carl Björnstjerna, in 1966
Anonymous sale (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Christie’s, 30 November 1979, lot 71 (as Lucas Cranach the Elder), for £75,000, where acquired by Jean Schuybroek
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:

CVM PVER ALVEOLO FVRATVR MELLA CVPIDO
FVPANTI DIGITVM SEDVIA PVNXIT APIS
SIC ETIAM NOBIS BREVIS ET MORITVRA VOLVEAS
QVAM PETIMVS TRISTI MIXTA 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 CorpusCranach
Cranach Digital Archive
Source/Photographer Sotheby's, London, 7 July 2021, lot 15
Other versions
  • a similar copy, probably by the same copist, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
    a similar copy, probably by the same copist, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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