AT-00020554
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Vulcan Forging the Darts of Cupid
Provenance
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Quick Overview
- Artist
- Francesco Primaticcio (Italian, Bologna 1504/5–1570 Paris)
- Date
- 1552–56
- Medium
- Red chalk, highlighted with white gouache, on brownish paper
- Dimensions
- 13-7/16 x 17-3/16 in. (34.1 x 43.7 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1917
- Accession no.
- 19.76.7
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Open-access museum record · AT-00020554
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