Aphrodite’s Lament for Adonis
- Other titles
- Venus pleure son cher Adonis blessé à mort a la chasse par un sanglier; Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide [Vol. III, Livre X, Fable XV.Pl.112]
- Date
- 1767-1771
- Object type
- Technique
- etching, roulette, burin
- Material
- laid paper
- Dimensions
- mount: 22,7 x 16,2 [impression: 18,7 x 12,7; composition: 13,1 x 8,7] cm
- Location
- Not on display
- Marks and inscriptions
- along the bottom, below the composition, on left: Boucher del.; on right: N. Le Mire sc.; in the middle: Venus pleure son cher Adonis blessé à mort | a la chasse par un sanglier.; impression pasted in eighteeth-century paper mount, surrounded by a pale green watercolour border, black ink lines and glued gold stripe; top right in pen and brown ink: CXII.
- Place of Origin
- Paris (France)
- Owner
- The Royal Łazienki
- Museum number
- ŁKr 1044
