Gratefully built with ACNLPatternTool
Not on view
Use your arrow keys to navigate the tabs below, and your tab key to choose an item
Title: The Power of Beauty, Venus reclining at right, gesturing towards a kneeling satyr, a cherub binding its hands behind it with another pulling on its beard and raising an arrow
Artist:
William Walker (British, Thirsk, North Yorkshire 1729–1793 London)
Artist:
Intermediary draftsman Richard Earlom (British, London 1743–1822 London)
Artist:
After Filippo Lauri (Italian, Rome 1623–1694 Rome)
Publisher:
John Boydell (British, Dorrington, Shropshire 1720–1804 London)
Date: 1767
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions:
Image: 13 3/4 × 18 1/2 in. (35 × 47 cm)
Sheet: 16 1/16 × 19 15/16 in. (40.8 × 50.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Object Number: 51.501.3238
The Met's Libraries and Research Centers provide unparalleled resources for research and welcome an international community of students and scholars.
The Met Collection API is where all makers, creators, researchers, and dreamers can connect to the most up-to-date data and public domain images for The Met collection. Open Access data and public domain images are available for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use without permission or fee.
We continue to research and examine historical and cultural context for objects in The Met collection. If you have comments or questions about this object record, please complete and submit this form. The Museum looks forward to receiving your comments.
