Venus Gathering Apples Nationality shows that it stayed within

shows that it stayed within the Morris family until 1938

The identification of the sitter is traditional

If directed by Understanding

her beauty is of the people

Murray's attribution to De Vos is accepted by K

Venus Gathering Apples Nationality shows that it stayed withinThis little painting was formerly attributed to Domenichino (1581 1641). Its recent cleaning has confirmed its quality, and it may have originated in the master's studio. A painting in Helsinki's Sinebrychoff Museum, of Apollo and Daphne, repeats the nude figure. Both paintings, not necessarily by the same artist, presumably have their roots in a single drawing, probably of the famous classical statue of Venus Callipygeia ('Venus of the beautiful