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"Venus Gives Aeneas His Arms" (Book VIII, lines 615ff.)

A drawing of Venus and Cupid standing on the edge of a battlefield and offering a man in antique dress an elaborate suit of armor.

Venus Gives Aeneas His Arms (Book VIII, lines 615ff.), ca. 1615
Pen and brown ink over black chalk; 114 x 155 mm
Christie’s, Amsterdam, November 21, 1989, lot 11