| Vulcan Shows Venus His Weapons | |
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| Artist | François Boucher |
| Year | 1757 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 320 cm × 320 cm (130 in × 130 in) |
| Location | Louvre, Paris |
Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas (French: Les Forges de Vulcain) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter François Boucher, executed in 1757 and now in the Louvre in Paris.[1][2] He produced it as the basis for one of a set of tapestries on The Loves of the Gods.[2] It is in the Rococo style and depicts the homely but muscular Vulcan on the ground in the right, offering up to the more celestial Venus the weapons he has forged for her son Aeneas.
See also
[edit]- Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan (1630) by Diego Velázquez in the Prado Museum, Madrid
- Venus at the furnace of Vulcan (1710) by Luigi Garzi at the Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata
References
[edit]- ^ Base Joconde: Reference no. 000PE000196, French Ministry of Culture. (in French)
- ^ a b Les forges de Vulcain ou Vulcain présentant à Vénus des armes pour Énée, Louvre collections
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