Raffle Ticket for the Painting of Venus and Cupid after Michelangelo

Giorgio Vasari|Gerard Vandergucht|Michelangelo Buonarroti|Jacopo da Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci)

1734 · Etching, additions in the text in pen and ink · Drawings and Prints

Large sheet with descriptive text and an image below. The text identifies the print as one of 50 raffle tickets, sold at the price of ten guineas for a chance at the painting of Venus and Cupid after a composition by Michelangelo Buonarroti, here attributed to Jacopo Pontormo. The raffle ticket was issues on December 16, 1734, while the auction was to be held on March 29, 1735 at Essex House on the Strand. The ticket also describes that the painting will be available for viewing at the same location on weekdays from noon til 2PM, excepting Sundays and holidays. According to later sources, the raffle never took place as Queen Caroline had taken a liking to the painting and it was acquired by King George II [See: Mrs. Anna Jameson, A Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and Near London, part II, London 1842, p. 362]

Artist

Giorgio Vasari|Gerard Vandergucht|Michelangelo Buonarroti|Jacopo da Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci)

Date

1734

Medium

Etching, additions in the text in pen and ink

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, 1959