Juno Asking Aeolus to Release the Winds (Q72753412)
Label from: English (en)
artist:
François Boucher (Q180932)
collection:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
location:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
depicts:
Juno (Q125046)
Aeolus (Q172549)
putto (Q284865)
cloud (Q8074)
nude (Q40446)
fish (Q152)
seashell (Q213096)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID:
20450511
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
6gEMtzaaOYLSnA
catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/juno-asking-aeolus-release-winds
information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog
description: As told by the Roman author Virgil in the first book of The Aeneid, the goddess Juno, consumed by jealousy toward Venus, schemed to prevent the fleet of her rival’s son, Aeneas, from reaching shore and founding a Trojan colony in Italy. In Boucher’s faithful depiction of this myth, Juno visits Aeolus, keeper of the winds, and urges him to unleash their fury, thus provoking a violent storm that would destroy Aeneas’s fleet. As enticement, Juno offers Aeolus her most beautiful nymph, Deiopea, in marriage.
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