Category:The Bath of Venus (Boucher, National Gallery of Art)

**Venus Consoling Love**
	painting by François Boucher
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Instance of	painting
Depicts	Venus; Cupid;
Material used	oil paint; canvas (painting surface);
Genre	mythological painting;
Location	National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., District of Columbia
Creator	François Boucher;
Collection	National Gallery of Art;
Inventory number	1943.7.2 (National Gallery of Art);
Inception	1751;
Width	84.8 cm;
Height	107 cm;
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The Bath of Venus (Boucher, National Gallery of Art)

Artist



Alternative names	Буше Франсуа; Ф. Буше; Буше Ф.
Description	French painter, engraver and tapestry designer
Date of birth/death	29 September 1703	30 May 1770
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work period	from 1720 until 1770 date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1720-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1770-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	Paris (1720–1770), Northern Netherlands (1766)
Authority control	: Q180932 VIAF: 66517093 ISNI: 0000 0001 2137 3066 ULAN: 500032143 LCCN: n50042112 NLA: 35020625 WGA: BOUCHER, François Open Library: OL4591723A GND: 118662244 SELIBR: 178815 SUDOC: 030857600 BNF: 12218907t NDL: 00926564 BIBSYS: 14067481 NKC: ola2002113760 BNE: XX1126234 CiNii: DA01504702 KulturNav: 410c2f7f-4f08-4226-80cc-104e9eda4d57 RKD: 11324 NLI: 000535172 Koninklijke: 07034020X NLK: KAC2018N0332 WorldCat

Title

French: Vénus consolant l'Amour
The Bath of Venus (Venus Consoling Love)

Deutsch: Venus tröstet Amor

Object type

Genre

Depicted people

Date

1751

Medium

Dimensions

Height: 107 cm (42.1 in)

; Width: 84.8 cm (33.3 in)

Collection

National Gallery of Art

	Native name	National Gallery of Art
	Location	Washington, D.C., United States of America
	Coordinates	38° 53′ 29″ N, 77° 01′ 12″ W
	Established	1937
	Web page	www.nga.gov
	Authority control	: Q214867 VIAF: 157699250 ISNI: 0000 0001 2375 3994 ULAN: 500115983 LCCN: n79054426 NLA: 36099676 WorldCat

Accession number

Object history

Painted for Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour and installed in the appartement des bains in the Château de Bellevue, outside Paris
removed c. 1757
recorded 1764 in the vestibule of the ground floor of the Hôtel d'Evreux, Pompador's Parisian residence
by inheritance to her brother, Abel François Poisson, marquis de Ménars et de Marigny [1727-1781], Château de Ménars, Paris
installed in the gallery of Marigny's residence, rue St. Thomas du Louvre, Paris, by 1777 (his estate sale, at his residence by Basan and Joullain, Paris, 18 March-6 April 1782 [postponed from late February]
purchased by Jean Baptiste Pierre Le Brun [1748-1813]
Paris and London
Baron Alfred Charles de Rothschild [1842-1918], Halton House, near Wendover, Buckinghamshire
by 1884 bequest to Grace Elvina Hinds Duggan Curzon, marchioness of Curzon [1879-1958], Kedleston Hall, Derby, Derbyshire; (her sale, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, New York, 22 April 1932, no. 80)
Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; gift 1943 to NGA

Exhibition history

1965 The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
1973 François Boucher in North American Collections: One Hundred Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago, 1973-1974, unnumbered brochure for Washington venue (shown only in Washington).

Inscriptions

lower left in black paint: F Boucher / 1751

References