Description: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, 183 x 100 mm. Ruled framing lines in brown ink. Stains. Laid down. Inscribed in the lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, Abo(l …?), monogrammed. Mark of J. G. De la Gardie (Lugt 2722a). On the verso of the mount, inscribed in pencil with a monogram ATSS, perhaps referring to Albert of Saxe-Teschen (Lugt 178c: incorrectly attributed to a “Count Sparr”).

This and the following two drawings were catalogued by Bartsch as by Andries Both. They are clearly part of the same series of naked goddesses. The style is very close to a series of drawings by Bouckhorst in Munich, all signed and dated 1622, among them a standing nude Minerva with her attributes.  The Munich drawings are more finished. It is possible that the Stockholm drawings belong to an earlier stage in the artist’s work on the same series; the figure of Venus with Cupid by her side is varied in the following two drawings. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 92]

Juno