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| Type | Artwork |
| Author | Peter Paul Rubens |
| Movement | Baroque |
| Where | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Year | 1635 |
| Note created | Feb 12, 2026 |
Oil on canvas, 77 3/4 × 95 5/8 in. (197.5 × 242.9 cm). A monumental depiction of the mythological scene in which Venus attempts to prevent her lover Adonis from departing for the hunt that will prove fatal. Painted probably in the mid-1630s by the Flemish Baroque master. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.