Venus with her Attendants
1896
Painter, French, 1836 - 1904
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 65.72 × 55.25 cm (25 7/8 × 21 3/4 in.)
framed: 86.36 × 76.2 × 10.16 cm (34 × 30 × 4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.61
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist; purchased 1904 by Edward C. [d. 1915] and Mary Griffin [1855-1937] Walker, Willistead Manor, Walkerville, Ontario, and Washington; bequest 1937 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1896
Salon, Paris, 1896, no. 782, as La Toilette.
1905
Exhibition of Paintings, Lent from the Private Collection of E. Chandler Walker, Esq., Detroit Museum of Art, April 1905, no. 47, as La Toilette.
1958
A Selection of Paintings from the Edward C. Walker and Mary Walker Collection, Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, 8-29 October 1958, no. 5, as La Toilette.
1959
French Masterworks: A Loan Exhibit from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1 July - 13 August 1959.
1983
French Salon Paintings from Southern Collections, High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1983, no. 30, as La Toilette.
La Vie Moderne: Nineteenth Century French Art from the Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, Georgia; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tampa Museum; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Akron Art Museum, 1983-1985, no. 25, repro., as La Toilette.
Inscriptions
lower right: Fantin Latour 96
Wikidata ID
Q46632041