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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Power of Beauty, Venus reclining at right, gesturing towards a kneeling satyr, a cherub binding its hands behind it with another pulling on its beard and raising an arrow

John Boydell|William Walker|Filippo Lauri|Richard Earlom

1767

Attribution
| |After|Intermediary draftsman John Boydell|William Walker|Filippo Lauri|Richard Earlom | | | British, Dorrington, Shropshire 1720–1804 London|British, Thirsk, North Yorkshire 1729–1793 London|Italian, Rome 1623–1694 Rome|British, London 1743–1822 London
Medium
Engraving
Physical dimensions
Image: 13 3/4 × 18 1/2 in. (35 × 47 cm) Sheet: 16 1/16 × 19 15/16 in. (40.8 × 50.7 cm)
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
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