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Painting by Nicolas Poussin

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Venus and Adonis
French: Vénus et Adonis
The reunited painting
Artist	Nicolas Poussin
Year	c. 1626
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	77 cm × 200 cm (30 in × 79 in)
Location	Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Venus and Adonis or View of Grottaferrata with Venus, Adonis and a River Divinity is an oil-on-canvas painting executed c.1626 by the French artist Nicolas Poussin. It is held in the Musée Fabre, in Montpellier.

It was cut in two in the 18th century, with the larger right-hand part entering the Musée Fabre in 1825 through François-Xavier Fabre. The left part ended up with the Patti Birch Trust by 1991, on long-term loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both halves were displayed together at the Metropolitan and then the Musée Fabre in 2008. At the end of 2009 the Montpellier Agglomération (guardian of the Musée Fabre) used two private donations to purchase the left hand part and thus reunite the painting. The complete painting was then exhibited at Nature et idéal: Le paysage à Rome 1600-1650, a 2011 exhibition in the Grand Palais in Paris.

The painting depicts Venus seducing Adonis under a tree surrounded by putti. To the left a river god pours out a drink for a greyhound. The episode was to end in tragedy when Adonis is gored by a wild boar when hunting the following day, as Venus had fearfully predicted. Her discovery of his dead body was portrayed in Poussin's later work Venus Weeping for Adonis.

Museum photo pre-reconstruction in 2010
Photo post-restoration & reconstruction

References

825.1.171, painting record for the right half on museum website
2010.14.1, painting record for the left half on the museum website
Deitz, Paula (9 February 2008). "Together at Last: 2 Paintings in a Frame". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 August 2020.

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List of paintings
Paintings	The Death of Chione (1622) The Battle between the Israelites and the Amorites (c. 1625) Joshua's Battle against the Amalekites (c. 1625) Venus and Adonis (1626) The Capture of Jerusalem by Titus (1626; 1635) The Death of Germanicus (1627) Venus Weeping for Adonis (c. 1626-1627) Saint Cecilia (1627–1628) Echo and Narcissus (1627–1628) The Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus (1628–1629) The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (1628–1629) Plague of Ashdod (1628–1630) Cephalus and Aurora (c. 1629–1630) The Inspiration of the Poet (1629–1630) Sleeping Venus with Cupid (1628–1630) Saint James the Great's Vision of the Virgin Mary (c. 1629–1630) The Massacre of the Innocents (1625–1632) Parnassus (c. 1631–1633) A Bacchanalian Revel Before a Term (1632–1633) The Adoration of the Golden Calf (1633–1634) Adoration of the Shepherds (1633–1634) The Crossing of the Red Sea (1633–1634) The Rape of the Sabine Women (1634–1635, 1637–1638) A Dance to the Music of Time (1634–1636) Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite (c. 1636) Camillus Handing the Falerian Schoolmaster over to his Pupils (1637) Et in Arcadia ego (1637–38) Theseus Rediscovering His Father's Sword (1638) The Manna (1638–1639) Extreme Unction (1638–1640) The Continence of Scipio (1640) Landscape with Saint John on Patmos (1640) The Funeral of Phocion (1648) Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion (1648) Eliezer and Rebecca (1648–1649) The Judgement of Solomon (1649) Landscape with Polyphemus (1649) Self-Portrait (1649) Landscape with Three Figures (1645–1650) Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice (1650–1653) The Flight into Egypt (1657–1658) Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun (1658) Landscape with Two Nymphs (1659) Landscape with Hercules and Cacus (c. 1660) Eliezer and Rebecca (1660-1665) Apollo and Daphne (1661–1664)
Painting series	Seven Sacraments (first series 1637–1640; second series 1644–1648) The Four Seasons (1660–1664)
Museums	Musée Nicolas Poussin
Related	Poussinists and Rubenists

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