Venus and Cupid

Paul Hubner

model ca. 1590–1600 (possibly cast 17th century) · Copper alloy with a light brown patina under a dark lacquer patina; pierced at the top. · Robert Lehman Collection

This plaquette depicts Venus and Cupid in a landscape, set in an oval, stylized wreath. While Paul Hübner has been identified as the possible author of this piece, it has also been attributed to an anonymous South German artist, possibly from Augsburg and dating from the late sixteenth century. Other versions are in Florence (Museo Stefano Bardini), Lyon (Musée des Beaux-Arts), Munich (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum), and Paris (Musée du Louvre). This object is an early, possibly seventeenth-century, aftercast.

Artist

Paul Hubner

Date

model ca. 1590–1600 (possibly cast 17th century)

Medium

Copper alloy with a light brown patina under a dark lacquer patina; pierced at the top.

Culture

German, Augsburg

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975