The Offering to Venus | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: G258
People: Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, French (Abbeville 1731 - 1797 Abbeville)
After Joseph-Marie Vien, the Elder, French (Montpellier 1716 - 1809 Paris)
Title: The Offering to Venus
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Offrande à Vénus
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 18th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/276564

Physical Descriptions

Technique: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 42.8 × 28.3 cm (16 7/8 × 11 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: IFF, vol. II, no. 60, p. 231; M. 26, Le Bl. 19, And. 4

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number: G258
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Rochelle Ziskin, Private Salons and the Art World of Enlightenment Paris, Brill Academic Publishers (Boston) (Boston, 2023), pp. 248, 250, repr. p. 250 as fig. 43

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G258: The Offering to Venus