Vernissage
Venus and Adonis

Peter Paul Rubens

Flemish, Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp

Venus and Adonis, probably mid-1630s

Oil on canvas

197.5 × 242.9 cm (77 ¾ × 95 ¾ in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gift of Harry Payne Bingham, 1937

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