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Venus and Adonis, Ferdinand Bol, c. 1658
Ferdinand Bol, portraitFerdinand BolDutch, 1616–1680

Venus and Adonis

c. 1658 · Painting

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Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

Source
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About the painting

Bol here painted a scene from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The goddess of love, Venus, and young Amor, try to deter Adonis from going on a boar hunt. Venus fears for his life. Bol – a pupil of Rembrandt – displays a smooth and bright manner of painting very different from his master’s darker, coarser style. Bol used it to conjure an idealized image of reality.

Rijksmuseum

Particulars

Accession number
SK-A-4823

What it shows

Venus trying to prevent Adonis from going hunting

In the catalog

PaintingsOilDutch paintingBaroque17th century

Sources

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