Venus and Adonis (Titian, Washington)

Venus and Adonis is a c. 1560 painting by Titian. Owned by Anne Russell Digby, wife of George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, it was inherited by the Spencer family in 1685, in whose hands it remained until 1924. It was then sold to various British and American art dealers, it was acquired in 1942 by the National Gallery of Art, where it now hangs.

External links

http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=1223

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