Tag: Venus
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01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 14
(French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris) The Toilette of Venus, c. Date:1751 42 5/8 x 33 1/2 in. (108.3 x 85.1 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV, admired Boucher and was his patroness from 1747 until her death in 1764. This famous work was commissioned for the dressing room at…
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03 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 13
George Frederick Watts, 1817 – 1904 UNDINE Oil on panel 24 1/4 by 23 3/4 in., 61.6 by 60.3 cm Private collection Undine is a fairy-tale novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué in which Undine, a water spirit, marries a knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has…