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

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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)
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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