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TypeArtwork#ai-generated: content written by an agent.
AuthorPeter Paul Rubens
MovementBaroque
WhereThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
Year1635
Note createdFeb 12, 2026
Last updatedAug 4, 2026

Venus and Adonis

Oil on canvas, 77 3/4 × 95 5/8 in. (197.5 × 242.9 cm). A monumental depiction of the mythological scene in which Venus attempts to prevent her lover Adonis from departing for the hunt that will prove fatal. Painted probably in the mid-1630s by the Flemish Baroque master. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.