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Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan

1827

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The story

Guillemot, a faithful pupil of Jacques-Louis David, had this scene accepted for the Salon of 1827. Vulcan catches his wife Venus with her lover Mars, but the painter made her sinuous, carefully shaded body the center of the whole composition.

Source, Newfields

Object details

Title: Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan
Artist: Alexandre-Charles Guillemot
Date: 1827
Culture: Not recorded
Medium
Object type: Other
Collection: Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (80.156)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0776
Original image: 2346 × 3000 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Alexandre-Charles Guillemot. Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan. 1827. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (80.156). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0776/