Cleveland Museum of Art
Venus and Adonis
Georg Raphael DonnerLinkedCulture matchlcp-64cf37c324ec
- Date
- mid-1700s
- Medium
- lead
- Culture
- Austria, Vienna
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 153681
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Venus, the goddess of love, fell in love with the mortal Adonis. Here she urges him not to pursue the dangerous sport of hunting boar, advice he ignored, eventually leading to his death.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- Gordon Balderston (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987.
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