Focus on this artwork and discuss the History.
This painting is not recorded until an image of it was published in the Directory of paintings of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Salomon Reinach in 1918, as being with a French dealer in 1912. In 1986 it was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Before the purchase, the painting was cleaned at the Metropolitan, notably to remove an old overpainting that extended the headdress of Venus to drape onto her right thigh.
cleaned Venus Salomon Reinach Metropolitan Museum of Art