Venus Commanding Vulcan to Make Arms for Aeneas
François Boucher · 1767 · Various brown chalks, with touches of brush and brown chalk wash, heightened with white chalk, on cream laid paper, prepared with a light brown wash ground, laid down on heavy buff
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Venus Commanding Vulcan to Make Arms for Aeneas is a public-domain drawing by François Boucher, dated 1767. Various brown chalks, with touches of brush and brown chalk wash, heightened with white chalk, on cream laid paper, prepared with a light brown wash ground, laid down on heavy buff. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Venus Commanding Vulcan to Make Arms for Aeneas” (1767) is by Boucher or a print after him. The subject is usually myth or a pastoral, treated as decoration.
About the artist
François Boucher (1703–1770) was a French Rococo painter favored at court. Myth, pastoral scenes, and decorative panels are painted with a light touch in pink and blue.
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