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 balustrade; in the distance, a landscape with mountains. Painted about 1547; in Urbino Collection. The Venus with the Organ Player, Madrid, is in some respects a repetition of it.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 156.

Festival of Venus, Rubens, Vienna Museum.

By Velasquez, Robert Morrit, Rokeby Park, Yorkshire, England; full-length, life-size. The goddess, nude, her back to the spectator, reclining on a purple couch, behind which hangs a green and crimson drapery; her face is reflected in a mirror held by Cupid, who kneels on the couch near her feet. In Velasquez's latest manner. Formerly in Alcázar at Madrid (1666); then in possession of Duke of Alva (1776); bought from the Prince of Peace in 1813 by Mr. Morrit for £500.—Buchanan, Memoirs, ii. 243; Illust. Esp. y Amer., Nov. 8, 1874; Curtis, 20; Bürger, Tresors, 121; Larousse, xv. 882.

Subject treated also by Lodovico Carracci, Berlin Museum; Vienna Museum; Jacopo Palma, younger, Cassel Gallery; Jacopo da Pontormo, Uffizi, Florence; Antonio Bellucci, Dresden Museum; Jan Brueghel, Madrid Museum; Luca Cambiaso, Palazzo Pallavicini, Genoa; Girolamo Carpi, Dresden Museum; Carlo Cignani, Turin Museum; Lucas Cranach, Palazzo Borghese, Rome; Christian Dietrich, Dresden Museum; Guercino, Accademia di S. Luca, Rome; Eustache Lesueur, Louvre, Paris; Pietro Liberi, Vienna Museum; Heinrich van Limborg, Dresden Museum; François Boucher, Berlin Museum; Padovanino, Louvre, Paris; Georg Penckz, Munich Gallery; Rembrandt, Louvre; Andrea Schiavone, Vienna Museum; Paolo Veronese, Bordeaux Museum; Palazzo Borghese, Rome; Adriaan van der Werff, Dresden Museum; Joseph Mazerolles (Salon, 1861); Édouard Toudouze (Salon, 1874).

VENUS AND CUPID, HISTORY OF, Raphael, Bath-room of Cardinal Bibbiena, Vatican; frescos on walls. Seven large compositions, on a dark red background: 1. Birth of Venus; 2. Venus and Cupid