Lambert Sustris1515–1584
Mars, Vénus et l'amour
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Musée du Louvre
Paris, France
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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About the painting
Venus and Cupid or Venus, Mars and Cupid is a c.1554 oil on canvas painting by Lambert Sustris, entering the French royal collection of Louis XIV in 1671 and now INV 1978 in the Louvre Museum, where it displayed in the Salle de la Joconde.
The artist was then a studio assistant to Titian and draws on his master's use of colour. Possibly commissioned by a member of the Fugger banking family in Augsburg (at least two of the five paintings by Sustris acquired by Louis are definitely known to have come from Augsburg).
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Before Louis XIV, it was probably owned Everhard Jabach, who seems to have owned all the Sustris works later acquired by Louis and may have bought an auction lot of works by the artist at a sale of the Fuggers' goods in Augsburg in 1650. It was probably then bought from Jabach by superintendent Nicolas Fouquet, then sequestered from him under the guardianship of Charles Le Brun in 1662 and fully seized by the king nine years later.
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- INV 1978
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- Musée du Louvre
- Image: Musée du Louvre — © 2009 GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Stéphane Maréchalle
Meanwhile, in the life of Lambert Sustris
The whole life1515
Born
1530–1536 · Workplace
Rome
1536–1548 · Workplace
Venice
1540–1543 · Workplace
Padua
1548 · Workplace
Augsburg
1584
Died
