Venus on water (Vénus sur les eaux).

 After the original by F. Boucher.
Engraving, etching. 348 x 412.
Under the image, on the left: F. Boucher Pinxit.; on the right: J. C. le Vasseur Sculp.; in the center: Talis ab aequareis quondam Venus aurea cunis. Intulit attonito vitamque et gaudia mundo; below: A. V. Francisco Boucher Primario Regis Pictori, et Regiae Academiae Moderatori. Lawrence Cars offered a monument of old friendship and gratitude. Veteris amicitae et grati animi monumentum Offerebat Laurentius Cars. A Paris chez L. Cars Graveur du Roi rue St. Jacques vis a vis le College du Plessis.
Inv. G 579.
Literature: Nagler, Bd. 19, p. 473, No. 21; Le Blanc, t. 2, p. 547, No. 9; Delignières, 1865, p. 15, No. 31; Portal and Béraldi, t. 2, p. 691, No. 5.
Boucher, François (1703, Paris – 1770, Paris) – French artist and engraver of the Rococo era.