Venus and Adonis

c. 1756

Alessandro Turchi, Artist Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, Artist Johanna Juliana Friederi Bacciarelli, Artist

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About the Artwork

Title Venus and Adonis

Artwork Date c. 1756

Makers Alessandro Turchi (Artist) Italian, 1578-1649 Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (Artist) French, 1731-1797 Johanna Juliana Friederi Bacciarelli (Artist) German, 1733-1863

Medium Engraving printed in black on laid paper

Dimensions plate: 12 3/4 x 14 3/8 in. 32.3 x 36.5 cm sheet: 27 3/4 x 21 in. 70.4 x 53.3 cm

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Bela Hubbard, 1892

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1991.103

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Inscriptions In plate, lower left: Fre. Bacciarelli. nee Richter del. 1756.; lower right: J. Beauvarlet Sculp; lower left of the bottom margin: Quadro di Alessandro Turco, detto / l'Orbetto. / dalla Galerie Reale di Dresda. / della stessa grandezza della Stampa; lower right of the bottom margin: Tableau d'Alexandre Turco dit / l'Orbetto. / de la Galerie Roiale de Dresde. / de la meme grandeur que l'Estampe.; lower right corner: 15; in black ink after Beauvarlet, lower right: b. 1733.; below Alexandre Turco: 1582 / died Verona 1648; lower center: Venus holding the Corpse of Adonis; lower right corner: Gift of Bela Hubbard. / 1892.; in pencil, lower center and lower right corner: 9

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Woermann, Karl. Catalogue of the Royal Picture Gallery in Dresden. Dresden, 1899, p. 316.

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Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet; after Johanna Juliana Friederi Bacciarelli; after Alessandro Turchi, Venus and Adonis, c. 1756, Engraving printed in black on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Bela Hubbard, 1892, 1991.103.

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