File:The Toilet of Venus, by François Boucher.jpg

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Description	French painter
Date of birth/death	29 September 1703	30 May 1770
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work period	from 1720 until 1770
Work location	Paris (1720–1770), Northern Netherlands (1766)
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

Français : La Toilette de Vénus

Deutsch: Toilette der Venus

English: The Toilet of Venus

Date

1751

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

108 × 85 cm (42.5 × 33.5 in)

Current location

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York City

Notes

Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920.

Source/Photographer

Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession number 20.155.9)

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