Raffle Ticket for the Painting of Venus and Cupid after Michelangelo
Large sheet with descriptive text and an image below. The text identifies the print as one of 50 raffle tickets, sold at the price of ten guineas for a chance at the painting of Venus and Cupid after a composition by Michelangelo Buonarroti, here attributed to Jacopo Pontormo. The raffle ticket was issues on December 16, 1734, while the auction was to be held on March 29, 1735 at Essex House on the Strand. The ticket also describes that the painting will be available for viewing at the same location on weekdays from noon til 2PM, excepting Sundays and holidays. According to later sources, the raffle never took place as Queen Caroline had taken a liking to the painting and it was acquired by King George II [See: Mrs. Anna Jameson, A Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and Near London, part II, London 1842, p. 362]
Artwork Details
- Title: Raffle Ticket for the Painting of Venus and Cupid after Michelangelo
- Etcher: Gerard Vandergucht (British, London 1696–1776 London)
- Artist: After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome)
- Artist: After Giorgio Vasari (Italian, Arezzo 1511–1574 Florence)
- Artist: Associated with Jacopo da Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci) (Italian, Pontormo 1494–1556 Florence)
- Date: 1734
- Medium: Etching, additions in the text in pen and ink
- Dimensions: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 8 11/16 in. (35 × 22 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, 1959
- Object Number: 59.508.100
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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