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Venus and Adonis or View of Grottaferrata with Venus, Adonis and a River Divinity is a c.1626 painting by Nicolas Poussin, now in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier.

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Venus and Adonis
French: Vénus et Adonis
The reunited painting
Artist	Nicolas Poussin
Year	c. 1626
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	77 cm × 200 cm (30 in × 79 in)
Location	Musée Fabre, Montpellier

It was cut in two in the 18th century, with the larger right-hand part entering the Musée Fabre. The left part ended up with the Patti Birch Trust by 1991, on long-term loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both halves were displayed together at the Metropolitan and then the Musée Fabre in 2008. At the end of 2009 the Montpellier Agglomération (guardian of the Musée Fabre) used two private donations to purchase the left hand part and thus reunite the painting. The complete painting was then exhibited at Nature et idéal : Le paysage à Rome 1600-1650, a 2011 exhibition in the Grand Palais in Paris.

The painting depicts Venus seducing Adonis under a tree surrounded by putti. To the left a river god pours out a drink for a greyhound. The episode was to end in tragedy when Adonis is gored by a wild boar when hunting the following day, as Venus had fearfully predicted. Her discovery of his dead body was portrayed in Poussin's later work Venus Weeping for Adonis.[1]

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- [en] Venus and Adonis (Poussin)

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[fr] Vénus et Adonis (Poussin)

Vénus et Adonis appelé aussi Vue de Grottaferrata avec Vénus, Adonis et une divinité fluviale est un tableau de Nicolas Poussin peint vers 1626, actuellement conservé au musée Fabre à Montpellier.

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[it] Venere e Adone (Poussin)

Venere e Adone è un dipinto di Nicolas Poussin risalente al 1626, custodito al Museo Fabre di Montpellier.

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