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Sleeping Venus

Maker

After

1594-1665

(engraver)
1703-1763

Title

Sleeping Venus

Date of Production

1760

Medium

etching and engraving

Dimensions

Height: 43.6 cm (sheet)
Width: 53.7 cm (sheet)

Accession Number

G.1939.AB.48

Mode of Acquisition

Warburg Institute, London, transfer, 1939

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Provenance

Léon Coutil, Les Andelys (1856-1943); acquired by Anthony Blunt for the Warburg Institute, 1938; transferred to The Courtauld Institute, 1939.

Inscriptions

Inscription: Venus Endormie // Surpise et decoverte par un Satyre // A Paris chez Daulle Graveur de Roi rue de Platre St. Jacques attenant le College de Cornouaille APDR // peint par N. Poussin // grave par J. Daulle graveur de Roy 1760

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