Jean Baptiste Louis Massard
France, b.1772, d.1810
Vénus De Médicis
- Engraving
- Sir Joseph Kinsey bequest
- 608 x 445mm
- 73/139
Tags: animals, Classical, dolphins (animals), figures (representations), goddesses, monochrome, mythology (literary genre), nudes (representations), people (agents), putti (motifs), sculpture (visual work), women (female humans)
This print is a page from the multi-volume 'Musée Francais; receuil des plus beaux tableaux, statues, et bas-reliefs qui existaient au Louvre avant 1815'. This monumental 1829 publication documented the contents of the Louvre Museum during the Napoleonc era when it had housed art treasures from all over occupied Europe.
