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François Boucher
Venus and Mercury Instructing Cupid1738

Not on view
Horizontal oil painting in a shaped gold frame, three figures on clouds — a reclining nude woman, a seated young man in red drapery, and a small child — with swans at left and a dark bird at right
Artist or Maker
François Boucher
France, Paris, 1703-1770
Title
Venus and Mercury Instructing Cupid
Place Made
France
Date Made
1738
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Frame: 27 × 60 × 3 in. (68.58 × 152.4 × 7.62 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Hearst Magazines
Accession Number
47.29.10
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Levkoff, Mary L., ed. Hearst the collector. Exh. Cat. New York: Abrams and Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008.
  • 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.