Venus at the Forge of Vulcan
18th century
Louis Félix de La Rue
Louis Félix de La Rue (French, 1731–1777)
Drawings
Venus at the Forge of Vulcan, 18th century. Louis Félix de La Rue (French, 1731–1777). Pen and brown ink, and brown wash (bistre) with red chalk and traces of graphite; sheet: 19.6 x 32.2 cm (7 11/16 x 12 11/16 in.); overall: 19.9 x 32.6 cm (7 13/16 x 12 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2017.212 Venus, the goddess of love, descends on a cloud into the forge of Vulcan, the god of fire and metalworking. This scene illustrates an episode from Virgil’s Aeneid in which Venus has come to collect the suit of armor she asked Vulcan to make for her son, Aeneas. Several putti on the left play with the finished product.
- Maker/Artist
- Delarue, Louis-Félix
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Pen and brown ink, and brown wash (bistre) with red chalk and traces of graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 19.6 x 32.2 cm (7 11/16 x 12 11/16 in.); Overall: 19.9 x 32.6 cm (7 13/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: verso of secondary support: center, in graphite: 371; lower center, in graphite: [illegible name ?] Aix 1665-1695 Paris; ruled lines and other illegible notations in black ink
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 2017.212
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Exhibitions
- Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, 1975
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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