\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 This painting comes from the Potemkin collection in St. Petersburg. The mythological subject is handled in a lively and lig
ht-hearted manner and transformed into a scene of domestic intimacy. Venus artfully hides her face as her dress falls to reveal her breast. The pictorial technique and palette are the outcome of ReynoldsÆs lengthy studies of sixteenth-century Venetian