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Subjects : History, Mythology
Keywords : 18th century, Rococo, Venus, Vulcan, chariot myth, divinity, dove, forge, mythological scene, nudity, putto, weapon
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Les Forges de Vulcain ou Vulcain présentant à Vénus les armes pour Enée

Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas (French: Les Forges de Vulcain) is an oil-on-canvas painting by François Boucher, executed in 1757 and now in the Louvre in Paris. He produced it as the basis for one of a set of tapestries on The Loves of the Gods. It depicts the homely but muscular Vulcan on the ground in the right, offering up to the more celestial Venus the weapons he has forged for her son [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the rococo style.

 

« Les Forges de Vulcain ou Vulcain présentant à Vénus les armes pour Enée » is kept at Musée du Louvre, Paris, France.

 

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