Cupid Dancing with Two Allegorical Women

Artist Paulus Moreelse (Dutch, 1571 - 1638)

Date1612

MediumChiaroscuro woodcut

DimensionsOverall: 9 1/16 × 11 7/16 inches (23.02 × 29.01 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the Print Duplicate Fund

Object number71-10

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Exhibition History

Thirty Years of Print Purchases for the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 19 - December 31, 1989, no. 16.

Mythological Subjects, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 9, 2007-April 13, 2008, no cat., as Cupid Dancing with Two Allegorical Women.

Mythological Subjects, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 12-December 15, 2013, no cat., as Cupid Dancing with Two Allegorical Women.

Gallery Label

Moreelse, who came from Utrecht in Holland but had studied in Italy, was among the originators of the so-called Dutch Arcadian style, concentrating on idealized descriptions of pastoral life in the ancient world. This lively scene is printed in two shades, grey and black, which fully define the design by contrasts of tone, without the use of line. The two dancing ladies are clad in the loosely draped costumes typical of ancient Greek and Roman statuary.

Provenance

With the Friends of Art Sales and Rental Gallery, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, by March 29, 1971;

Purchased from the Friends of Art Sales and Rental Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1971.

Published References

Thirty Years of Print Purchases for the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 19 - December 31, 1989, p. 7.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 277, (repro.), as Cupid Dancing with Two Allegorical Women.

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