Vulcan Discovering Venus and Mars

François-Edouard Picot

Artist, French, 1786 - 1868

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink, black wash and white gouache on brown prepared laid paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.4 x 29.8 cm (8 13/16 x 11 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.60.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kate Ganz, New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 4.

Inscriptions

lower right in image: Picot(?)

Wikidata ID

Q64569781


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