
Venus Lamenting the Death of Adonis
Rijksmuseum / Public Domain
Catalogue
- Year
- 1780
- Dimensions
- width: 402 cm, height: 207 cm
- Collection
- Rijksmuseum
- Artist
- Giuseppe Cades
Artist

Painting
Giuseppe Cades was a neo-classicist Italian draftsman, painter, engraver and sculptor, based in Rome. As both a draftsman known for his drawings and a painter, Cades worked in many media, including pencil, coloured chalks, watercolour, tempera with wax on canvas and oil paint on canvas.
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1795 · Pen and black ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
The Meeting of Gautier, Count of Antwerp, and his Daughter, Violante
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Portrait of a Lady with an Elaborate Cartouche
1785 · Red chalk over graphite (portrait), pen and black ink and watercolor over graphite (surround), circular framing line in graphite
Birth of the Virgin
1779 · Pen and brown ink with pen and brown wash, over traces of graphite, heightened with white gouache (discolored), on ivory laid paper
Designs for Vases [verso]
1750 · graphite
Record
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- Giuseppe Cades
- Year
- 1780
- Dimensions
- width: 402 cm, height: 207 cm
- Watts ID
- WW-1780-011540
Source
- Collection
- Rijksmuseum
- Source
- rijksmuseum
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
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