The Birth of Venus | |
Artist: | François Boucher |
Medium: | Oil on canvas |
Year: | c. 1750–1770 |
Height Metric: | 67.3 |
Width Metric: | 119.2 |
Museum: | Wallace Collection |
City: | London |
Accession: | P433 |
The Birth of Venus is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Rococo artist François Boucher, created c. 1750–1770. It is held in the Wallace Collection, in London, England. The painting was adapted from a 1743 oval composition by Boucher, now part of a private collection in New York.[1]