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Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan (Met. IV: 169-189)

Artist: Bernard Salomon (1506-1561)
Title: Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan (Met. IV: 169-189)
Date: 1557
Medium: Woodcut. Illustration to La Métamorphose d'Ovide Figurée. Published in Lyon by Jean Tournes (1505-1564) in 1557.
Photo Source: http://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/ovidillust.htm
Note: As Rubem Amaral Jr. has pointed out (private communication), there are impressions of this engraving in which the erotic embrace of Venus and Mars has been obliterated.
Item: 2590A