Venus Asks Vulcan to Cast Arms for her Son Aeneas

Anthonis van Dyck, 1630, Department of Paintings of the Louvre

‘Venus Asks Vulcan to Cast Arms for her Son Aeneas’ is a work by Anthony van Dyck (Flanders/Belgium, 1599–1641). It is dated 1630. It is part of the collection Department of Paintings of the Louvre.

It is made of oil paint and canvas. It measures 220 × 145 cm. The work belongs to the genre mythological painting. The things depicted include Venus, Vulcan, nudity, and putto.

The catalogue has 249 more works by Anthony van Dyck.