Image
Description
Maker
Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594-1665)
Title
Venus and Adonis
Year
Medium
Materials/Techniques
-
Techniques
Materials
oil paintSupports
Geography
-
Place Made: France
Dimensions
-
76.2 x 101 cm (30 x 39 3/4 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
-
Signature: Unsigned
Label: Thomas Agnew London
Credit / Object Number
-
Credit
Walter H. Kimball Fund, Georgianna Sayles Aldrich Fund, Mary B. Jackson Fund, Edgar J. Lownes Fund and Jesse Metcalf Fund
Object Number
54.186 Type
Provenance
-
. . . Collection, Comte de Waldegrave ; his sale, London, 19 November 1763, n°25 ; Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1766 ; Lord Carrington, 1842 ; by descent to 6th Lord Carrington ; Carrington sale, London, Christie ‘s, 4 May 1951, n°85 ; acquired at this sale by Agnew’s; acquired by Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design in 1954.
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
Use & Feedback
Image use
The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use.
This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
Tombstone
To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.
Feedback
We view our online collection as a living documents, and our records are frequently revised and enhanced. If you have additional information or have spotted an error, please send feedback to curatorial@risd.edu.