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- Adriaen van der Werff (1659 - 1722)
- Venus and Cupid
- Netherlands
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- Date: 1716
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on oak panel
- Image size: 45.1 x 33.4 cm
- Inv: P151
- Location: East Galleries III
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- Venus and Cupid is characteristic of the painter’s late, meticulous style, with exaggeratedly slender nude figures. Venus warns Cupid not to fire his arrows thoughtlessly, and extends a finger at him to further emphasise her point. The work is typical of Van der Werff’s small-scale lightly erotic subjects which he painted for the open market towards the end of his career.