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Luca Cambiaso|Gérard René Le Vilain|Jean Bernard Duvivier

Venus mourning Adonis, seated beneath a tree and embracing him, with Cupid at right

ca. 1786
Engraving
19.2 × 16.8 cm (7.6 × 6.6 in)

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