# Still-Life with a Bust of Venus [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [EVERDINGEN, Caesar van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 74 x 61 cm ## Commentary This painting and its pendant \(Bust of Adonis, Museum, Cape Town\) are the only still-lifes Van Everdingen painted. For a classicist like this painter still-lifes were a second-rate genre. These two paintings are most unusual still-lifes and, at the same time, figure pieces. In this painting the woman is a cast of the upper section of the Venus Medici, a full-length sculpture of a nude. It was at the Villa Medici in Rome until 1677 when it was transferred to the Uffizi in Florence. It is a copy after a Greek original dating from the late classical era. The child beside the bust is Cupid, the son of Venus. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of the Birth of Frederik Hendrik]() - [Amor Holding a Glass Orb]() - [Bacchus with Nymphs and Cupid]() - [Count Willem II of Holland Granting Privileges]() - [Diogenes Seeks a True Man]() - [Four Muses and Pegasus on Parnassus]() - [Holy Family]() - [Jupiter and Callisto]() - [Lycurgus Demonstrates the Benefits of Education]() - [Nymphs Offering the Young Bacchus Wine, Fruit and Flowers]() - [Officers and Standard-Bearers of the Old Civic Guard]() - [Portrait of a Girl as a Huntress]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()