Venus and Cupid, by Adam Elsheimer

An image of Venus and Cupid. Elsheimer, Adam (German, 1578-1610). Oil on copper, height 8.7 cm, width 14.6 cm, 1600-1605.

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Venus and Cupid. Elsheimer, Adam (German, 1578-1610). Oil on copper, height 8.7 cm, width 14.6 cm, 1600-1605.

Image data

Accession Number: 532
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 604 pixels
Image width: 1023 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 96.47kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2013:08:13 10:47:07

Key words

17th Century Adam Elsheimer Aphrodite Baroque Cupid Elsheimer female Fitz_PDP German goddess gods nude oil on copper painting Venus Venus and Cupid

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025)
            "Venus and Cupid, by Adam Elsheimer"
            Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-218085 Accessed: 2025-03-29 15:48:36

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-218085
            |title=Venus and Cupid, by Adam Elsheimer
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-03-29 15:48:36|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-218085

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/large_532_1_201308_adn21_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Venus and Cupid"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Venus and Cupid, by Adam Elsheimer</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>