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Cupid Showing an Arrow to Venus

Pierre Scalberge (French, 1623–1636)
1638

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 19.3 × 14.3 cm (7 5/8 × 5 5/8 in.)
Platemark: 18.9 × 14 cm (7 7/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP4429
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robert-Dumesnil 37, only state; Le Blanc 37
Marks Verso, lower left, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection (Lugt 1870)
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816-d. 1896; cf. Lugt 1309), New York; 1896, by inheritance to his son, Charles Sewall; 1897, sold by Charles Sewall to the MFA [see Note 1]. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)