Venus and Adonis is an oil on canvas painting byPeter Paul Rubens and his studio, executedc. 1614, now in theHermitage Museum, inSaint Petersburg.[1] It is a version of an autograph work from 1609 now in theMuseum Kunstpalast inDüsseldorf, replacing its rocky background with Venus's attribute of a golden chariot. A third version was in theKaiser-Friedrich-Museum in Berlin until being destroyed during World War Two.
The main figures are by Rubens himself, whilst other areas were painted by his students, with the landscape now attributed toLucas van Uden orJan Wildens[2] and the dogs by Wildens. It was in private collections in Brussels such as that of Carl de Cobenzel until 1768, when a collector sold it to the Hermitage.
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