Alexandre Cabanel

The Birth of Venus



Alexandre Cabanel - The Birth of Venus



Alexandre Cabanel
The Birth of Venus
1875
106 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
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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

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 94.24.1

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