Venus and Adonis

Artists

Dimensions

19.9 x 32.9 cm (7 13/16 x 12 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Charles-Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel, Paris and Bellême (his mark, L.2073, lower left, black ink); his sale, Paris, Drouot (P. Roblin), possibly part of lots 290-92; Louis Deglatigny, Rouen (his mark, L.1768a, lower left, red ink); his sale, Paris, Drouot (Féral, Catroux, et Huteau), 4–5 November 1937, lot 234 (as Sébastien Le Clerc); Galerie Arnoldi–Livie, Munich (as Antoine Dieu, as of 1990); Galerie Moatti, Paris (as of 1992); Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1993, inv. no. 1993.255