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Venus Asks Vulcan to Cast Arms for her Son Aeneas

painting by Anthony van Dyck

Details

Instance of: painting
Inception: 1630s
Location: Room 850
Owned by: Louis XIV of France
Creator: Anthony van Dyck
Genre: mythological painting
Depicts: Venus, Vulcan, nudity, putto, forging, body armor
Material: oil paint, canvas
catalog code: 579, 716, 120, 16
collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre
copyright status: public domain
depicts Iconclass notation: 9, 12EE13, 12B13, 47B111, 12FF13, 45C22, 96B66
height: 220 cm
inventory number: INV 1234, MR 678
title: Venus in de smidse van Vulcanus, vraagt hem de wapens van Aeneas, Venus in Vulcan's forge, asking him to make Aeneas' s weapons
width: 145 cm

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