Cupid Making His Bow

Cupid Making His Bow (c. 1533–1535) is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance artist Parmigianino.

The work appears in the inventory of Francesco Baiardo in Parma, who was a friend and patron of Parmigianino.

Late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari writes that Baiardo had commissioned the Cupido che fabbrica di sua mano un arco.

It was however blocked by the Spanish crown, and could be acquired and arrive to Prague, together with Correggio's Jupiter and Io and Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle, in 1603.

[1] A preparatory drawing for Cupid's head is in the Cabinet des Dessins of the Louvre (n. 1662).