Venus and Adonis

1778

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white, over stumped charcoal, on beige paper
Dimensions: 13 1/16 x 17 15/16 in. (33.2 x 45.5 cm)
Collection no.: 62.124.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

François-André Vincent. Venus and Adonis. François-André Vincent; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1962. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Venus and Adonis — François-André Vincent. 1778.

Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white, over stumped charcoal, on beige paper. Dimensions: 13 1/16 x 17 15/16 in. (33.2 x 45.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1962.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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