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Venus and Cupid warming themselves (Venus frigida)

The subject is taken from a saying quoted by Terence ('The Eunuch', 732): 'Sine Baceho et Cererefriget Venus' ('Without Bacchus and Ceres, Venus grows cold'). DPG165 seems to be a sketch for a picture in the Akademie der bildenden Knste Vienna. Both were published by Mller-Hofstede in 1967 as Rubens, but the attribution is not generally accepted.

Not currently on display

Artist
Follower of Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Date
c.1610-20
Dimensions
35.5 x 46.6 cm
Materials
Oil on panel
Acquisition
Bourgeois Bequest, 1811
Accession number
DPG165