Title: Venus at the Forge of Vulcan (recto); Sketches with Two Putti (verso)
Object type: Drawing
Date: ca. 1716–18
Artist:  Sebastiano Conca 
Artist bio: Italian, Gaeta 1676 or 1680–1764 Naples
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen with black-brown and lighter brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk, on paper washed light brown (recto); pen and medium-brown ink, on unprepared buff paper (verso)
Dimensions: Diameter: 17 1/4 in. (43.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, Rogers and Harry G. Sperling Funds, several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts and Mrs. Howard J. Barnet Gift, 2013
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Birds, term: Putti, term: Venus, term: Vulcan