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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

Venus Disarming Cupid

1852/57
Charcoal, with stumping, scraping and erasing, heightened with white gouache, on dark cream wove paper with inclusions
38.7 × 25.8 cm (15.2 × 10.2 in)

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This drawing takes its subject and composition from Corot’s painting A Nymph Playing with a Cupid (1857; Musée d’Orsay, Paris), exhibited at the Salon of 1857—the first time the artist had shown a work at the Salon featuring a female nude. He apparently made this drawing for his close friend and fellow painter Constant Dutilleux.

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