Alexandre Cabanel
The Birth of Venus
1875106 x 182.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, lower left: ALEX CABANEL
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of John Wolfe, 1893
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Alexandre Cabanel
The Birth of Venus
1863
The Birth of Venus
1863
Literature
Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 59
Provenance
John Wolfe, New York, 1875–d. 1894, commissioned from the artist
sale, Leavitt, New York, 5-6 April 1882, bought in
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