# Venus and Adonis

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## Artwork

- Artist: [REGNAULT, Jean-Baptiste](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/regnault-jean-baptiste-r19c811118b74ca>)
- Date: 1751-1800
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 227 x 171 cm

## Commentary

This monumental canvas depicting Venus and Adonis can be counted among the small number of extant large scale mythological works by Regnault. These pictures were often executed for the artists own artistic satisfaction as no public commissions for works of this size are recorded, and many private homes of the time could rarely accommodate such large pictures.

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## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)