PrintsFrench17th-18th century

Venus

17th-18th century

Artists

Bernard PicartArtist

Guido ReniArtist after

Classification

Prints

Technique

Etching

Culture

French

Century

17th-18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

Plate: 23.3 × 18 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/16 in.) Sheet: 38.5 × 27.5 cm (15 3/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

Provenance

John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister. Belinda Lull Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892. sister of John Witt Randall

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