# Venus and Adonis

- By: Ferdinand Bol (Dordrecht, 1616–1680)
- Date: c. 1658
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: depth 6 cm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4823--0c276f3257f5c9fe73db1bb820005aa8)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/7fb30729fff84eb2a4892f42e9cbcddf.jpg
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Bol here painted a scene from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The goddess of love, Venus, and young Amor, try to deter Adonis from going on a boar hunt. Venus fears for his life. Bol – a pupil of Rembrandt – displays a smooth and bright manner of painting very different from his master’s darker, coarser style. Bol used it to conjure an idealized image of reality.