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 VENUS Cambridge ; Dulwich Gallery ; and Dresden Gallery. None of them by Titian. C. & C., Titian, i. 273. VENUS, FESTIVAL OF, Eubens, Vienna Museum ; canvas, H. 7 ft. x 11 ft. Votaries present offerings to a statue of Venus in a grove, while cupids dance around it, and others sport among the trees or float in the air with clusters of fruit ; at one side, two beautiful women advance with offerings, and at the other side, nymphs and satyrs dance ; in background, the temple of the goddess on a hill. Engraved by Preuner. Smith, ii. 98. VENUS AND MAES. See Mars. VENUS WITH THE MIRROR. See Ve- nus, Toilet of, Titian. VENUS WITH THE ORGAN PLAYER, Titian, Madrid Museum ; canvas, H. 4 ft. 6 in. x 7 ft. G in. Venus, nude, lying in same position as the Venus and Cupid of the Uf- fizi, but with different face ; instead of hold- ing flowers, she pats with her hand a lap-dog, the bark of which disturbs a man playing an organ at the foot of the couch. Painted about 1547, and probably taken to Augs- burg in 1548 and sold to Nicholas Gran- velle ; sold in 1GOO by the Count of Cante- croix to Emperor Rudolf H. ; said to have been in Collection of Charles I. of England ; in Spain since 1665. Repetitions, with changes, by followers of Titian, in Madrid and Dresden Museums, and in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Other copies. C. & C., Titian, ii. 158, 185 ; Morelli, 173 ; Hiib- ner, Dresden Gal., i. 13 ; Larousse, xv. 882. VENUS DEL PARDO. See Jupiter and Antiope. VENUS AU PETIT CHIEN. See Venus of the Tribune. VENUS OF THE SHELL. See Venus Anadyomene, Titian. VENUS, TOILET OF, Francesco Albani, Louvre, Paris ; canvas, H. 6 ft. 7 in. x 8 ft. 3 in. Venus, seated in front of a Doric por- tico on the border of the sea, looking at herself in a mirror held by a cupid ; at left, three cupids near a table on which is a vase of flowers ; at right a fountain ; in back- ground, a palace. Collection of Louis XIV. Engraved by Baudet ; B. Audrau. Villot, Cat. Louvre ; Landon, Musec, 2d Col., iii. PI. 61 ; Reveil, xii. 878. By Titian, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; canvas, H. 4 ft. x 3 ft. 4 in. Venus, partly draped, seated on a couch, with her head turned to look in a mirror held by a cupid, who, with his back to the spectator, staggers under the load ; Eros, with one hand on his mother's shoulder, tries with the other to crown her with a garland. Painted in 1562 ; came from Pomponio Vecelli to Barberigo Toilet of Venus, Titian, Cobham Hall, England. Collection, whence passed to Russia. Re- plicas made for Philip H. of Spain and for Niccolo Crasso, but both missing. Copy without Eros at Cobham Hall, from Orleans Gallery; others in Dresden and Augsburg Galleries, and an original sketch in Dresden. Another, in the Hermitage, classed as a school-piece, which came from the Malmai- son Collection, presents two cupids hold- ing the mirror ; replica lately in Lord Ash- burton's Collection, London. Autotype by Ad. Braun & Co., Paris. C. & C., Titian, ii. 333 ; Ticozzi, 59. Subject treated also by Jacob Jordaens, 344