# The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1748: The Son of Venus and Mars Presented to the Temple of Minerva

- By: Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (French, 1715 - 1759)
- By: Michelangelo Specchi (Italian, 1684 - 1750)
- Date: 1748
- Medium: etching
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: plate: 40 × 46 cm (15 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)
- Credit line: Gift of Vincent Buonanno in Honor of Andrew Robison
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.211625.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/nga/fdf8d2db-acee-4b49-bc91-518ffa462ecd/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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