This work was included in the Collectors Exhibition 2016 and is no longer on consignment with Lauraine Diggins Fine Art. For any enquiries, please contact the Gallery.
Related Work:
Mars and the Vestal Virgin (1638, oil on canvas, 130 x 110 cm in the collection of The Art Gallery of New South Wales).
The subject of this picture is taken from Ovid¹ and illustrates the moment that the goddess, begging Adonis not to leave her for the hunt, knowing that he will never return, entreats a kiss from her reluctant and very mortal lover.
¹. Metamorphoses, Bk X: 708-739, ‘She warned him' ...'but his courage defied the warning.’
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private collection, France
The Matthiesen Gallery [text by Andrea Gates and Patrick Matthiesen], Myth and Allegory, London 2008, in particular pp. 20-25
Kazerouni, Guillaume Jacques Blanchard, au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, 2015