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Venus and Aeneas

Maker

After

1594-1665

(engraver)
1640-1713

Title

Venus and Aeneas

Dimensions

Height: 35.7 cm
Width: 45.7 cm

Accession Number

G.1939.AB.82

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: Recto: lower left: “N. Poussin pinxit.”; lower right, “Loir sculpsit”; lower left: “Ille Deae donis, & tanto laetus honore/ Expleri nequit. &c.//”; lower right: “Venus arme son fils et ce brave guerrier/ Se sent combler d’honneur de plaisir et de joye,/ Il y donne son ame en proye/ Sans pouvoi s’en raßasier.//”; lower center: “Aeneid. lid. vum./ a Paris chez J. Mariette rue S. Jacques avec Colonnes d’Hercules”; lower right, handwritten on mount: “A.353 no. 2[circled] Dup Engr., No Photo/ no 1[circled] Photoed, not burnt.//”.

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