Venus and Mercury Instructing Cupid

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Venus and Mercury Instructing Cupid

France, 1738
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Frame: 27 × 60 × 3 in. (68.58 × 152.4 × 7.62 cm)
Gift of Hearst Magazines (47.29.10)
European Painting
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

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  • Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa, and Elizabeth M. Rudy, eds. Drawing: the Invention of a Modern Medium. Cambridge: Harvard Art Museums, 2017.
  • L'Opera Completa di Boucher. Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1980.
  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  West Germany:  Bruder Hartmann, 1965.
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Levkoff, Mary L., ed. Hearst the collector. Exh. Cat. New York: Abrams and Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008.
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