Venus and Adonis, c. 1756

  • Johanna Juliana Friederi Bacciarelli, German, 1733-1863
  • Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, French, 1731-1797
  • Alessandro Turchi, Italian, 1578-1649

Engraving printed in black on laid paper

  • plate: 12 3/4 x 14 3/8 in. 32.3 x 36.5 cm sheet: 27 3/4 x 21 in. 70.4 x 53.3 cm

Gift of Bela Hubbard, 1892

1991.103

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

In plate, lower left: Fre. Bacciarelli. nee Richter del. 1756.; lower right: J. Beauvarlet Sculp; lower left of the bottom margin: Quadro di Alessandro Turco, detto / l'Orbetto. / dalla Galerie Reale di Dresda. / della stessa grandezza della Stampa; lower right of the bottom margin: Tableau d'Alexandre Turco dit / l'Orbetto. / de la Galerie Roiale de Dresde. / de la meme grandeur que l'Estampe.; lower right corner: 15; in black ink after Beauvarlet, lower right: b. 1733.; below Alexandre Turco: 1582 / died Verona 1648; lower center: Venus holding the Corpse of Adonis; lower right corner: Gift of Bela Hubbard. / 1892.; in pencil, lower center and lower right corner: 9

Woermann, Karl, CATALOGUE OF THE ROYAL PICTURE GALLERY IN DRESDEN: Dresden: Wilhelm Hoffmann's Fine Art Works, 1899, p 316.

Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet; after Johanna Juliana Friederi Bacciarelli; after Alessandro Turchi, Venus and Adonis, c. 1756, Engraving printed in black on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Bela Hubbard, 1892, 1991.103.