This is a print containing a passage from ovid's metamorphoses translated into french and an illustration by the hand of bernard salomon. The text and illustration are surrounded by a rich decoration. The mythological episode represented is the following: while pluto is visiting sicily, venus notices him. As no part of the world, including the underworld, should be spared from her power and that of her son, she asks cupid to pierce pluto with one of his arrows and make him succumb to love. The print is part of the 1564 edition of the metamorphosis of ovid figuratively, published by the french typographer jean de tournes. Date: 1564. Medium: gravure. Collection: Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon. Vénus et Pluton
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