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for 1,680 guineas.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 150.

Venus and Adonis, Titian, Madrid Museum.

By Titian, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 6 ft. × 6 ft. 9 in. Variation of the Alnwick Venus, with Cupid asleep under a tree. Painted in 1554 as a companion-piece (though larger) to the Danaë of Madrid, and sent to London to Philip, Prince of Spain, with Titian's congratulations on his marriage to Queen Mary. Philip acknowledged its receipt, Dec. 6, 1554, and complained of an injury to the canvas, which had been rolled and squeezed flat by accident. The crease is still apparent. Titian was probably aided by Orazio Vecelli in it, and by others in the replicas in National Gallery, London, and in the collection of Lord Elcho. Modern copies in Nostitz Collection, Prague, and in Dulwich Gallery.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 237; Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 451.

By Paolo Veronese, National Gallery, Edinburgh; canvas, H. 2 ft. × 2 ft. 8 in.—Waagen, Treasures, iii. 274.

By Paolo Veronese, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 7 ft. × 6 ft. 6 in. Adonis reclining on the sward asleep, with his head in the lap of the goddess; Venus looks towards a cupid and a beautiful dog, anxious to depart for the chase. Bought by Velasquez in Venice for Philip IV. A very fine example of the painter.—Madrazo; Larousse, xv. 882.

Subject treated also by Moretto, Uffizi, Florence; Paris Bordone, Vienna Museum; Luca Cambiaso, Palazzo Borghese, Rome; Anton van Dyck, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Cornelis Corneliszen, Caen Museum; Joseph Heinz, elder, Vienna Museum; Abraham Janssens van Nuyssen, ib.; Caspar Netscher, Louvre, Paris; Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, ib.; Johann Rottenhammer, ib.; Alessandro Turchi (2), Dresden Museum; Nicolas Poussin, Uffizi, Florence, Montpellier Museum; François Boucher, Barker Collection, London; Narciso Diaz (Salon, 1848, 1859); Victor Muller (Salon, 1865).

VENUS AND ÆSCULAPIUS, Edward J. Poynter, South Kensington Museum, London; canvas, H. 6 ft. × 8 in. Venus, attended by the Graces, on one of whom she leans for support, is showing the thorn in her foot to Æsculapius, who is seated in a garden under a porch covered with honeysuckle, with a dog lying beside him and Hygieia standing behind holding a box of medicaments; doves and sparrows are flitting about; in the background a gateway leads into the temenos of the temple, and at right is a fountain, from which an attendant is dipping water for one of the Graces, who is holding out her hand for it. Royal Academy, 1880; purchased for Chantry Collection. Engraved by W. Ridgway. Water-colour sketch, J. P. Haseltine.—Art Journal (1885), 324, 340.