# Lover Crowning his Mistress [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VIEN, Joseph-Marie]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 335 x 202 cm ## Commentary In 1773 Vien received the patronage of Mme du Barry, who for her Château de Louveciennes commissioned the series of four works depicting the Progress of Love in the Hearts of Young Girls. Two from the series, the Greek Maidens Adorning a Sleeping Cupid with Flowers, and the Lover Crowning his Mistress, are in the Louvre. ## Related artworks - [Greek Maidens Adorning a Sleeping Cupid with Flowers]() - [La Marchande d'Amours]() - [Marcus Aurelius Distributing Bread to the People]() - [Portrait of the Architect Barthélemy Michel Hazan on Horseback in Mufti]() - [St Denis Preaching in Gaul]() - [The Sleeping Hermit]() - [Venus Showing Mars her Doves Making a Nest in his Helmet]() - [Venus, Wounded by Diomedes, Is Saved by Iris]() - [Women in Classical Dress Attending a Young Bride]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()