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Description
Alexandre Cabanel - The Birth of Venus - 3D Lenticular Postcard Greeting Card
4x6 inches - In clear protective reusable sleeve
The Birth of Venus is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889). It was painted in 1863, and is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. A second and smaller version from ca. 1864 is in Dahesh Museum of Art. A third version dates from 1875; it is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Shown to great success at the Paris Salon of 1863, The Birth of Venus was immediately purchased by Napoleon III for his own personal collection. That same year Cabanel was made a professor of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
Card back contains lines for mailing address
Ideal as a postcard or give as a greeting card
