Venus

attributed to Domenichino (1581 - 1641)

York Art Gallery

1581 - 1641

In this painting, the nude Venus reclines on a bed strewn with rose petals. Her left hand pulls back a brocade curtain to reveal a landscape background and two doves are perched in the middle ground of the painting. This painting was part of a collection of 117 works belonging to the industrialist and engineer F.D. Lycett Green and bequeathed to York through the Art Fund, in 1955, in recognition of the remarkable efforts made after the Second World War by its curator to transform it into a gallery of international importance.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 121.9 x 168.9cm
• ArtFunded in: 1955
• Presented by F D Lycett Green through The Art Fund

Provenance

Viscountess Churchill; F.D. Lycett Green.

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