Mars and Venus (Ares and Aphrodite)
- Other titles
- Mars et Vénus, dont Apollon découvre le comerce et en instruit Vulcain; Les Métamorphoses d’Ovide [t. II, Livre IV, Fable III. Pl. 50]
- Date
- 1767-1771
- Object type
- Technique
- etching, roulette, burin
- Material
- laid paper
- Dimensions
- mount: 22,8 x 16,9 [impression: 18,7 x 12,8; composition: 13,0 x 8,6] cm
- Location
- Not on display
- Marks and inscriptions
- at bottom, on right barely visible signature: N. Le Mire Sculp. 1767; along the bottom, below the composition, on left: F. Boucher inv.; on right: N. Le Mire Sc; in the middle: Mars et Vénus, dont Apollon découvre le | comerce et en instruit Vulcain.; impression pasted in eighteenth-century paper mount, surrounded by a pale green watercolour border, black ink lines and glued gold stripe; at top right, in pen and brown ink the number L.
- Place of Origin
- Paris (France)
- Owner
- The Royal Łazienki
- Museum number
- ŁKr 1045
