Venus and Adonis

ca. 1637–39

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 6 7/8 in. (11.8 × 17.4 cm)
Collection no.: 26.70.4(137)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Simone Cantarini. Venus and Adonis. Simone Cantarini; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926. 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 — Simone Cantarini. ca. 1637–39.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 6 7/8 in. (11.8 × 17.4 cm).

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

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926.

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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