Landscape with Venus and Adonis
1580s
Gillis van Coninxloo
Gillis van Coninxloo (Netherlandish, 1544–1607)
European Painting and Sculpture
Landscape with Venus and Adonis, 1580s. Gillis van Coninxloo (Netherlandish, 1544–1607). Oil on copper; framed: 48.3 x 64.5 x 7 cm (19 x 25 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 37.8 x 53.6 cm (14 7/8 x 21 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1962.293 Venus, the goddess of love, is unsuccessful in dissuading her mortal lover Adonis from hunting the boar that would eventually kill him. The artist nestles this story in the foreground of an expansive view with Germanic architecture, rather than a classical setting. Woodlands were relatively new subjects in European painting and this work points toward the full-blown forested landscapes of the 1600s.
- Maker/Artist
- Coninxloo, Gillis van II
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on copper
- Dimensions
- Framed: 48.3 x 64.5 x 7 cm (19 x 25 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 37.8 x 53.6 cm (14 7/8 x 21 1/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed lower left: "GLVC [monogram]"
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1962.293
- Credit Line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review (1963), Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century, Flemish Landscapes, 1520-1700, CMA, 1963: "Year in Review 1963," Bull., L (Dec. 1963), p. 293, no. 86. <br>CMA, 1996: "Landscape in Detail," September 10-Novevmber 3, 1996, no catalogue<br>Kulturstiftung Ruhr, Villa Hügel, Essen (8/23/2003 - 11/30/2003) and Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien (12/21/2003 - 4/12/2004): "Flemish Landscapes, 1520-1700", exh. cat. no. 39, p. 124-125.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 118 Italian Renaissance
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