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Venus and Adonis, Nicolas Mignard, c. 1650, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

In Greek myth, Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, adored the handsome mortal Adonis. She warned him about the dangers of hunting, but he ignored her and was killed by a wild boar. Here, as he sets out, spear in hand and dogs in tow, she pleads with him to stay. Heartbroken at his death, she transformed his blood into anemones, the fragile flowers visible in the shadows behind her. This painting is in the classicizing style popular in France during the 1600s—a monumental composition with idealized, half-dressed figures. A gifted colorist, Mignard used bold color combinations and a luminous palette to brilliant effect in Adonis’s drapery and the purple canopy above Cupid. Size: 147 x 89 x 6 1/2 in. (373.38 x 226.06 x 16.51 cm) (outer frame) 107 1/2 x 69 11/16 in. (273.05 x 177.01 cm) (sight) Medium: Oil on canvas

Venus and Adonis, Nicolas Mignard, c. 1650, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

In Greek myth, Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, adored the handsome mortal Adonis. She warned him about the dangers of hunting, but he ignored her and was killed by a wild boar. Here, as he sets out, spear in hand and dogs in tow, she pleads with him to stay. Heartbroken at his death, she transformed his blood into anemones, the fragile flowers visible in the shadows behind her. This painting is in the classicizing style popular in France during the 1600s—a monumental composition with idealized, half-dressed figures. A gifted colorist, Mignard used bold color combinations and a luminous palette to brilliant effect in Adonis’s drapery and the purple canopy above Cupid. Size: 147 x 89 x 6 1/2 in. (373.38 x 226.06 x 16.51 cm) (outer frame) 107 1/2 x 69 11/16 in. (273.05 x 177.01 cm) (sight) Medium: Oil on canvas

Venus and Adonis, Nicolas Mignard, c. 1650, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

In Greek myth, Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, adored the handsome mortal Adonis. She warned him about the dangers of hunting, but he ignored her and was killed by a wild boar. Here, as he sets out, spear in hand and dogs in tow, she pleads with him to stay. Heartbroken at his death, she transformed his blood into anemones, the fragile flowers visible in the shadows behind her. This painting is in the classicizing style popular in France during the 1600s—a monumental composition with idealized, half-dressed figures. A gifted colorist, Mignard used bold color combinations and a luminous palette to brilliant effect in Adonis’s drapery and the purple canopy above Cupid. Size: 147 x 89 x 6 1/2 in. (373.38 x 226.06 x 16.51 cm) (outer frame) 107 1/2 x 69 11/16 in. (273.05 x 177.01 cm) (sight) Medium: Oil on canvas

Goat face with stars, witchy academia style

Venus and Adonis, Nicolas Mignard, c. 1650, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

In Greek myth, Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, adored the handsome mortal Adonis. She warned him about the dangers of hunting, but he ignored her and was killed by a wild boar. Here, as he sets out, spear in hand and dogs in tow, she pleads with him to stay. Heartbroken at his death, she transformed his blood into anemones, the fragile flowers visible in the shadows behind her. This painting is in the classicizing style popular in France during the 1600s—a monumental composition with idealized, half-dressed figures. A gifted colorist, Mignard used bold color combinations and a luminous palette to brilliant effect in Adonis’s drapery and the purple canopy above Cupid. Size: 147 x 89 x 6 1/2 in. (373.38 x 226.06 x 16.51 cm) (outer frame) 107 1/2 x 69 11/16 in. (273.05 x 177.01 cm) (sight) Medium: Oil on canvas

Venus and Adonis, Nicolas Mignard, c. 1650, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

In Greek myth, Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, adored the handsome mortal Adonis. She warned him about the dangers of hunting, but he ignored her and was killed by a wild boar. Here, as he sets out, spear in hand and dogs in tow, she pleads with him to stay. Heartbroken at his death, she transformed his blood into anemones, the fragile flowers visible in the shadows behind her. This painting is in the classicizing style popular in France during the 1600s—a monumental composition with idealized, half-dressed figures. A gifted colorist, Mignard used bold color combinations and a luminous palette to brilliant effect in Adonis’s drapery and the purple canopy above Cupid. Size: 147 x 89 x 6 1/2 in. (373.38 x 226.06 x 16.51 cm) (outer frame) 107 1/2 x 69 11/16 in. (273.05 x 177.01 cm) (sight) Medium: Oil on canvas

Study for the Archangel Gabriel by Nicolas Mignard, Drawings and Prints

Medium: Red chalk and graphite, heightened with white chalk

Purchase, Stephen A. Geiger Gift, in honor of his mother, Mildred K. Geiger, and in memory of his father, Howard W. Geiger, 1999 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY