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Venus Rising From The Sea
Fine Art Stone litho, chin colle, Venus Anadyomene
This artwork is a lithograph from 1898 by the French artist Henri Fantin-Latour. The title "Venus Anadyomene" translates to "Venus Rising from the Sea".
Details of the Artwork:

Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904).
Medium: Lithograph on paper, sometimes applied to vellum or china paper.
Date: 1898.
Subject: The central figure is Venus, who is shown emerging from the water. She raises drapery with both hands. Other figures in the composition include a kneeling sea nymph offering pearls in a shell, a sea god, a flying cupid, and a group of children, one of whom holds a mirror for Venus.

Henri Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer known for his realistic flower paintings and group portraits, but he also created imaginative lithographs inspired by classical music, literature, and mythology
Venus Rising From The Sea