Venus and Adonis

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

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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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