Raffle Ticket for the Painting of Venus and Cupid after Michelangelo
Medium
Etching, additions in the text in pen and ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 3/4 × 8 11/16 in. (35 × 22 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, 1959
Accession Number
59.508.100
Tags
Art Historical Context
This charming etching, titled *Raffle Ticket for the Painting of Venus and Cupid Michelangelo*, serves as a artifact from 18th-century Europe, blending high art with everyday commerce. Produced in 1734, it a classical scene of the goddess Venus and her son Cupid inspired by Michelangelo Buonarroti's Renaissance mastery. The design draws from copies by Giorgio Vasari—a key biographer of Michelangelo and avid replicator of his works—and Jacopo da Pontorm, a Mannerist painter known for his elegant, elongated figures. English engraver Gerard Vandergucht brought it to life through precise etching, ...
About the Artist
Giorgio Vasari|Gerard Vandergucht|Michelangelo Buonarroti|Jacopo da Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci) · 1511–1574
Vasari was a productive court artist and architect in Florence during the first half of the 16th century, with his primary patrons being Alessandro and Ippolito de' Medici, until 1537 with the death of Alessandro. However, he is most well known for his book "Le vite de' più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori Italiani," which was first published in 1550, and once again in 1568 in an expand...