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In a vaguely wooded setting a woman traditionally identified as Venus sits with two naked cupids pressing into her lap from either side. The whole is very rapidly and thickly painted. Venus’s skirt is painted in thick strokes of pinks and whites swirled together, with dashes of red-brown helping to shape the folds. Her face, which is deep in shadow, has been left unfinished. The legs of the cupid on the left are boldly outlined in the same dark red paint as that in Venus’s skirt. The composition is related to a highly finished version of the same group, and forms part of Diaz’s extensive output of Venus-type figures, usually accompanied by children, which he produced from about 1846 to 1863. Despite their mythological subject matter, they were very influenced by Correggio’s depictions of the Virgin and Child.
Title
Venus and Two Cupids
Date
1847
Medium
Oil on canvas mounted on wood
Measurements
H 33.7 x W 20.6 cm
Accession number
NG3246
Acquisition method
Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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