Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

The Metropolitan Museum of Art


    • The Toilet of Venus, 1751
    François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
    Oil on canvas

    42 5/8 x 33 1/2 in. (108.3 x 85.1 cm)
    Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920 (20.155.9)

    This painting and its pendant, Venus Consoling Love (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), were commissioned by Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV, for her Château de Bellevue, near Paris. Madame de Pompadour had played the title role in La Toilette de Vénus staged at Versailles in 1750.

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  • The Toilet of Venus, 1751
    François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
    Oil on canvas

    42 5/8 x 33 1/2 in. (108.3 x 85.1 cm)
    Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920 (20.155.9)