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Joseph Marie Vien
Venus Emerging from the Seacirca 1754-1755

Not on view
Oil painting of a nude woman draped in white and pink fabric seated among mythological sea figures, including a young man, a bearded elder, putti, and marine creatures

Joseph Marie Vien, Venus Emerging from the Sea, circa 1754-1755, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Joseph Marie Vien
France, Montpellier, 1716-1809
Title
Venus Emerging from the Sea
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1754-1755
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 12 3/4 × 16 1/4 in. (32.39 × 41.28 cm) Frame: 15 × 18 × 1 in. (38.1 × 45.72 × 2.54 cm)
Credit Line
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.2000.179.17
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

(Artist’s sale, Paris, Paillet, 17 May 1809, lot 93). (Sale, London, Sotheby’s, 16 July 1980, lot 228, to); Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1994, sold 2000 to; LACMA.

Selected Bibliography
  • Marandel, J. Patrice. French oil sketches from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 17th century - 19th century. Los Angeles: The Ahmanson Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002.
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.