Torso of Venus and a Landscape Torso of Venus and a Landscape Torso of Venus and a Landscape is a sketch by Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. It now resides in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. This drawing was created while van Gogh was staying with his brother in Paris (in 1886-1888), a period during which they did not write any letters to each other. As a result, little is known about the artist during this period except for his still-life paintings and "Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin". In 1887, he sketched this drawing onto a piece of paper with black chalk
Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus (Reynolds) Marchioness of Thomond was bought at the sale of her collection in May 1821 by Sir John Soane - it is thus now in the Soane Museum. In 1788 Lord Carysfort commissioned an autograph copy to present to Prince Grigory Potemkin, which is now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus (Reynolds) Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus (originally entitled "A Nymph and Cupid: ‘The Snake in the Grass’" or "The Snake in the Grass, or Love unloosing the zone of Beauty"; later also known as "Love and Beauty" and "Cupid Untying the Girdle