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Object Type
Museum number: 1926,0412.19
Description: 'La toilette de Venus': Venus, naked, sitting on a sofa and holding a dove, surrounded by three cupids helping her to get ready. 1783 Colour aquatint, crayon-manner and etching
Producer name: Print made by: Jean François Janinet; After: François Boucher
School/style
Production date: 1783
Materials
Technique: aquatint; colour; crayon-manner; etching
Dimensions: Height: 384 millimetres (cut); Width: 296 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Advertised in 'Affiches, Annonces et Avis divers', 23 March 1784; after a painting made by Boucher for the Marchioness of Pompadour in 1751 (the figure of Venus is a portrait of the Marchioness), and now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Bibliographic references: Jean-Richard 1978 / L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild (1225.II); Portalis & Beraldi 1880-82 / Les Graveurs du Dix-Huitième Siècle (3.II); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (39.II)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical mythology; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Eros/Cupid; Representation of: Aphrodite/Venus; Representation of: Madame de Pompadour
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1926
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1926,0412.19

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