Venus and Adonis (mid-1700s): Art, History and Details
Venus and Adonis at the Cleveland Museum of Art: mid-1700s, lead. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Venus and Adonis (mid-1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Georg Raphael Donner (Austrian, 1693–1741).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Venus, the goddess of love, fell in love with the mortal Adonis. Here she urges him not to pursue the dangerous sport of hunting boar, advice he ignored, eventually leading to his death.
Object facts
- Title: Venus and Adonis
- Date: mid-1700s
- Creator attribution: Georg Raphael Donner (Austrian, 1693–1741)
- Culture: Austria, Vienna
- Type: Sculpture
- Technique: lead
- Dimensions: Overall: 20.6 x 20.7 cm (8 1/8 x 8 1/8 in.)
- Collection: Sculpture
- Department: European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession number: 1987.198
Collection credit
John L. Severance Fund
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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