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Venus is nude on a rococo canapé in a lavish interior whose drawn curtains reveal a garden in the background. Three small putti accompany the goddess and help her to tend to her appearance, one arranging her hair, another handing her a ribbon, and belowa third raises a silver platter with a pearl necklace.
Simon Vouet was born on January 9, 1590, in Paris. [3] His father Laurent was a painter in Paris and taught him the rudiments of art. Simon's brother Aubin Vouet was also a painter, as also was Simon's wife Virginia da Vezzo, their son Louis-René Vouet, their two sons-in-law, Michel Dorigny and François Tortebat, and their grandson Ludovico Dorigny.
The Rokeby Venus (/ ˈ r oʊ k b i / ROHK-bee; also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid and, in Spanish, La Venus del espejo) is a painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age.
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Self-Portrait (Simon Vouet) T. Time Defeated by Love, Beauty and Hope; W. Woman Playing a Guitar (Vouet)
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The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.