# The Toilet of Venus [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ALBANI, Francesco]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 89 x 99 cm ## Commentary The Toilet of Venus c. 1610 Oil on canvas, 89 x 99 cm Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna This painting was probably painted as a pendant to Annibale Carracci's Landscape with Diana and Callisto \(collection of the Duke of Sutherland, St Boswells\). Carracci developed the composition of The Toilet of Venus several years after his Landscape with Diana and Callisto, and the greatest part of its execution was left to Albani, his pupil. ALbani later painted his own interpretations of Carracci's mythological inventions. ## Related artworks - [Adonis Led by Cupids to Venus \(detail\)]() - [Autumn \(Venus and Adonis\)]() - [Ceiling painting]() - [Ceiling vault of piano nobile loggia]() - [Diana and Actaeon]() - [Diana and Actaeon]() - [Holy Family]() - [Mercury]() - [Spring \(detail\)]() - [Spring \(Venus at her Toilet\)]() - [Summer \(Venus in Vulcan's Forge\)]() - [The Annunciation]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()