Venus Consoling Love

Venus Consoling Love is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1751 by the French artist François Boucher.

She is about to disarm Cupid, by taking away his arrows, that he uses when shooting at people to make them fall in love.

The white doves at her feet, her complexion, the pearls in her hair are just as luxurious like the silk draperies that were wrapped around her, but now are lying on the ground.

Boucher painted the artwork with soft pastel tones using a dim silvery light.

It has even been suggested that Boucher's young wife was the young woman posing for the figure of Venus, but it is more a soft and appealing essence of feminine beauty, that appears in front of us in the figure of the Venus painted by the French artist Boucher.