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François Boucher: Venus at Vulcan's Forge  wikidata:Q72753414 reasonator:Q72753414
Artist
François Boucher  (1703–1770)  wikidata:Q180932 q:ru:Франсуа Буше
 
François Boucher
Description French painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, illustrator, etcher and drawer
Date of birth/death 29 September 1703 Edit this at Wikidata 30 May 1770 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
Work period from 1720 until 1770
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1720-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1770-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Paris (1720–1770), Northern Netherlands (1766)
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artist QS:P170,Q180932
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Title
English: Venus at Vulcan's forge
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Venus Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1769
date QS:P571,+1769-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 273.5 cm (107.6 in); width: 204.7 cm (80.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,273.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,204.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1741629
Accession number
AP 1972.09
Notes This painting belongs to a series of six that Boucher painted for Jean-François Bergeret de Frouville's hôtel in Paris. Four of them are at the Kimbell Art Museum and the other two at the Getty Museum.
  • Boreas Abducting Oreithyia, Kimbell Art Museum
    Boreas Abducting Oreithyia, Kimbell Art Museum
  • Juno Asking Aeolus to Release the Winds, Kimbell Art Museum
    Juno Asking Aeolus to Release the Winds, Kimbell Art Museum
  • Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs of Nysa, Kimbell Art Museum
    Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs of Nysa, Kimbell Art Museum
  • Venus at Vulcan's Forge, Kimbell Art Museum
    Venus at Vulcan's Forge, Kimbell Art Museum
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