Venus and Two Cupids (The Offspring of Love)
Artist
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña
(1807 - 1876)
Date1847
MediumOil on canvas mounted on wood
Dimensions33.7 × 20.6 cm
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineSir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
Object number3246
DescriptionBorn in Bordeaux of Spanish parents, Diaz gained a good reputation from a number of history paintings he exhibited at the Salon, the official platform for the exhibiting of new work. This work, showing Venus with two amorini, is painted with luminous impasto oil paint. This style of loose and heavy brush stroke was admired by the artist Adolphe Monticelli. (JO'D)A full length seated figure of a woman (Venus) in a low cut cream dress looks down at a cupid to the right. The cupid at the left looks back towards the viewer.
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