how was the painting received by the people?
It immediately met with a storm of derision from critics for the style in which Venus was painted
The Dawn of Love (painting)
t immediately met with a storm of derision from critics for the style in which Venus was painted; 
by whom was the dawn of love painted? By English artist William Etty what is it about? It shows a nude Venus leaning across to wake the sleeping Love by stroking his wings. when was it completed? In 1828
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The Dawn of Love (painting) [SEP] Reception
Etty exhibited the painting in February 1828 at the British Institution under the title of "Venus Now Wakes, and Wakens Love". It immediately met with a storm of derision from critics for the style in which Venus was painted; one of the few positive reviews was that of "The New Monthly Magazine", whose critic considered "the figure of Venus is delightfully drawn and most voluptuously coloured; and the way in which she awakens love, by ruffling the feathers of his wings, is exquisitely imagined and executed". "The Times" commented that "the drawing is free and flowing" and "the colouring, though rich, is perfectly natural", but felt that "the subject is, however, handled in a way entirely too luscious (we might, with great propriety, use a harsher term) for the public eye".