Apollo and Venus, painted between 1595 and 1600 by Otto van Veen (a teacher of Rubens), had been donated (with other works) to the Des Moines Women's Club, which used the pieces as the nucleus of an art gallery. And why did this one end up in the closet? Well, it may have been a bit too risqué for these Iowa matrons.
Article source here:Arts Journal
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