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Drawing, Mars and Venus Preparing Themselves for the Nuptials of Cupid and Psyche

This is a Drawing. It was created by Johann August Nahl The Younger and after Giulio Romano. It is dated ca. 1781. Its medium is lead pencil, pen and dark ink, brush and gray watercolors on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by George A. Hearn.

Its dimensions are

44.3 × 40.4 cm (17 7/16 × 15 7/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: C Z I HONIG and vryheit in the scheme of Churchill 89; the legend begins above at left but the letters have wrong directions.

It is signed

Below at right, probably the signature, written with pencil: "J . A. Nahl"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Mars and Venus Preparing Themselves for the Nuptials of Cupid and Psyche; Johann August Nahl The Younger (German, 1752 - 1825); After Giulio Romano (Italian, 1499–1546); Germany; lead pencil, pen and dark ink, brush and gray watercolors on paper; 44.3 × 40.4 cm (17 7/16 × 15 7/8 in.); 1897-9-7

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