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Venus at the Forge of Vulcan
Louis Félix de La RueLinkedCulture matchlcp-752c75f8e2e0
- Date
- 18th century
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, and brown wash (bistre) with red chalk and traces of graphite
- Culture
- France, 18th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 74635
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Venus, the goddess of love, descends on a cloud into the forge of Vulcan, the god of fire and metalworking. This scene illustrates an episode from Virgil’s Aeneid in which Venus has come to collect the suit of armor she asked Vulcan to make for her son, Aeneas. Several putti on the left play with the finished product.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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