Luis Desangles - The Birth of Venus, 1896
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The Birth of Venus (El Nacimiento de Venus)
Oil on canvas, completed in 1896
A reproduction by Luis Desangles (1861-1940, Santo Domingo), of the French artist Alexandre Cabanel's painting of the same name.
Cabanel painted two versions of The Birth of Venus, the first in 1863, and a smaller version commissioned in 1875.