Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas (Boucher): Difference between revisions

'''''Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas''''' ({{lang-fr|Les Forges de Vulcain}}) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter [[François Boucher]], executed in 1757 and now in the [[Louvre]] in Paris.<ref>{{Base Joconde|000PE000196}}</ref><ref name=louvre>[https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010060479 Les forges de Vulcain ou Vulcain présentant à Vénus des armes pour Énée], Louvre collections</ref> He produced it as the basis for one of a set of tapestries on ''The Loves of the Gods''.<ref name=louvre/>It is in the [[Rococo]] style and depicts the homely but muscular [[Vulcan (mythology)|Vulcan]] on the ground in the right, offering up to the more celestial [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]] the weapons he has forged for her son [[Aeneas]].