Landscape with Venus and Adonis

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Landscape with Venus and Adonis

Gillis van ConinxlooLinkedCulture matchlcp-6dc0686d93e9

Date
1580s
Medium
oil on copper
Culture
Netherlands, 16th century
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
138360

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Venus, the goddess of love, is unsuccessful in dissuading her mortal lover Adonis from hunting the boar that would eventually kill him. The artist nestles this story in the foreground of an expansive view with Germanic architecture, rather than a classical setting. Woodlands were relatively new subjects in European painting and this work points toward the full-blown forested landscapes of the 1600s.

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Credit line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Provenance
Possibly Gillis van Coninxloo the Elder (inventory of January 19, 1607); | Possibly Jacques Kina (N. de Roever, "De Coninxloo's," Oud Holland, III, 1885,42); | Possibly Anna de Schot (inventory of April 21, 1663; see J. Denuce, De Antwerpsche 'Konst-kamers' Inventarissen van Kunstverzamelingen te Antwerpen in de 16 en 17 Eeuwen, II, Amsterdam, 1932,238); | Henry Doetsch, London, 1895; | (Christie's, London, June 22-25,1895, no. 282, illus.); | M. Greene, London, 1932; | Harry Quilter, London, 1961; | [F. Kleinberger, New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962.

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