Cleveland Museum of Art

Hymn to Venus

Louis Felix de la Rue

Date

c. 1760–65

Medium

Pen and brown ink over red chalk (?) on antique laid paper

Culture

France, 18th century

Department

Drawings

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Louis Félix de La Rue came from a family of artists and was best known for creating designs for decorative arts, such as ceramics. This sheet—which features putti and bacchantes, the artist’s preferred subjects—likely served such a purpose, given its allover composition and focus on patterning and symmetry. The verso of this drawing is covered in the artist’s calculations and notations, suggesting that he reused a sheet found in his studio to create it.

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