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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 |
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