Art, literature & history
The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1747: The Temple of Venus Genitrix
1747
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 39.7 × 47.3 cm (15 5/8 × 18 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2016.121.67.34
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain. The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1747: The Temple of Venus Genitrix. Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Vincent Buonanno in Honor of Andrew Robison. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1747: The Temple of Venus Genitrix — Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain. 1747.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 39.7 × 47.3 cm (15 5/8 × 18 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2016.121.67.34. Gift of Vincent Buonanno in Honor of Andrew Robison.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.