Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas (Boucher)
Painting by François Boucher
Vulcan Shows Venus His Weapons | |
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Artist | François Boucher |
Year | 1757 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 320 cm × 320 cm (130 in × 130 in) |
Location | Louvre, Paris |
Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas (French: Les Forges de Vulcain) is an oil-on-canvas painting by François Boucher, executed in 1757 and now in the Louvre in Paris.[1][2] He produced it as the basis for one of a set of tapestries on The Loves of the Gods.[2] It depicts the homely but muscular Vulcan on the ground in the right, offering up to the more celestial Venus the weapons he has forged for her son Aeneas.
See also
- Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan (1630) by Diego Velázquez in the Prado Museum, Madrid
- Venus at the furnace of Vulcan (1710) by Luigi Garzi at the Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata
References
- ^ Base Joconde: Reference no. 000PE000196, French Ministry of Culture. (in French)
- ^ a b Les forges de Vulcain ou Vulcain présentant à Vénus des armes pour Énée, Louvre collections
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