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Venus and Cupid with a lute-player
Painter: Vecellio, Tiziano
History note: Probably coll. Emperor Rudolf II (d.1612); Imperial collection, Prague, by 1621; taken to Sweden after the fall of Prague, 1648; Queen Christina of Sweden, Rome (d. 1689); Orleans family; exh. for sale, London, Lyceum, 1798/9 (199), bt. Viscount Fitzwilliam
Height: 150.5 cm
Width: 196.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
1555 CE - 1565 CE
Support composed of canvas
Painting (image-making) : Oil on canvas
Accession number: 129
Primary reference Number: 654
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
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