Venus Presenting Aeneas with Armour Forged by Vulcan
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (1708-1787)
Venus Presenting Aeneas with Armour Forged by Vulcan
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (1708-1787)
1748
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- Material/technique
- oil on canvas, unlined
- Measurements
- 99 × 74 cm
- Acquisition
- acquired through Prince Joseph Wenzel I von Liechtenstein
- Artists/makers/authors
- Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
- Inventory number
- GE 163
- Signature/inscriptions content only available in German
- sign. und dat. unten rechts: P.B.1748.
- Provenance
- Acquired by Prince Joseph Wenzel I of Liechtenstein after commission from the artist together with its counterpart (inv. no. GE 161); mentioned in 1805 in the gallery catalog (manuscript) of Johann Dallinger von Dalling (with the reference to a now lost inventory of the 18th century, in which the painting is listed as the property of Joseph Wenzel I in his private gallery in the Majoratshaus in Herrengasse, Vienna).
- Iconography
- Venus presents the arms of Vulcan to Aeneas
