Les Amours de Mars et de Venus
Artist
Anonymous (Italian)
(Italian)
Artist
Rosso Fiorentino
(Italian, 1494 – 1541)
Artist
After Jacopo Caraglio
(Italian, 1500 – 1570)
Date16th century
Period16th century
MediumEngraving on paper
DimensionsImage Size: 16 3/8 x 13 3/8 inches
Mat Size: 22 x 28
Object Size: 20 x 16 1/2 inches
Mat Size: 22 x 28
Object Size: 20 x 16 1/2 inches
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh M. Taft
Object number1996.046
Curatorial DepartmentEuropean Art (pre 1900)
![Sont-il fade!… regarde donc comme ils s’en sauvent!…. ce que c’est de ne pas vivre dans une chose!!!…. Mes petits amours, quand vous repasserez faudra prévenir, on vous brûlera des pastilles du Sérail…..
[How silly! Just look how they run. That’s what you get when you are in the wrong place. Just you wait! Next time, tell us in advance and we’ll take good care of you…]
from the series Émotions Parisiennes [Parisian Emotions], number 1, published in Le Charivari.](/internal/media/dispatcher/893/thumbnail)
Honoré Daumier
published July 14, 1839
Object number: 1981.013
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
c. 1860
Object number: 1978.011
Anonymous (Italian)
c. 1590–95 (original)
Object number: 1996.056
![Jeunes imprudens qui se laissent emporter par le point d’honneur et qui narguent les arrêts de la Cour de Cassation.
[Rash young students who are fighting over a point of honor and who snap their fingers at the supreme court.]
from the series Professeurs et Moutards [Teachers and Students], number 9, published in Le Charivari](/internal/media/dispatcher/5059/thumbnail)
Honoré Daumier
published December 30, 1845
Object number: 2014.199
![(En choeur): “Le soleil est si beau!” (à part) coquin de temps! (en choeur): “Et puis de ma Bretagne le soleil est si beau!…” Vive Loisa Puget!!!!!……
[(Chorus) “The sun shines so bright!” (aside) What foul weather! (Chorus) “O my native Brittany, where glows the sun so bright…” Hurrah for Loisa Puget!]
from the series Les Musiciens de Paris, number 3, published in La Caricature (Deuxième Publication)](/internal/media/dispatcher/5043/thumbnail)
Honoré Daumier
October 31, 1841
Object number: 2014.183
![“Ou peut on être mieux (bis) “Qu’au sein de sa famille….” Ces trois artistes se trouveraient mieux a sein de cabaret, et leur jeune associé au sein d’une partie de billes. [“Where can one be happier (bis) than in the bosom of the family?” These three artists would be better off in the bosom of the cabaret, and their young associate at a game of marbles.]
from the series Les Musiciens de Paris, number 5, published in Le Charivari](/internal/media/dispatcher/5045/thumbnail)
Honoré Daumier
published February 20, 1843
Object number: 2014.185
![Le bûcher [Burning at the Stake], Plate 13 from Les Misères et les Malheurs de la Guerre [The Miseries and Misfortunes of War]](/internal/media/dispatcher/10504/thumbnail)
Jacques Callot
1633
Object number: 2022.005
![La Garde-Malade. Décidément, il n’y a que les fruitières pour vous procurer de belles connaissances. Un épileptique, un hydrophobe et une folle!….. si l’épicier pouvait me faire avoir avec ça la maladie de poitrine qu’il m’a promise, c’est ça qui me ferait joliment du bien!
[The Nurse. No question, the fruit vendors are the only ones who introduce you to interesting cases… an epileptic, a hydrophobic, and a lunatic!… And if the vendor could get me that case of tuberculosis he promised, it would really do me some good!]
from the series Bohémiens de Paris, number 15, published in Le Charivari](/internal/media/dispatcher/899/thumbnail)