Venus and Adonis from the Montpellier museum and the Landscape with a God-River from the Birch collection were recognized in 1980 by Clovis Withfield as being two parts of the same work. The discovery confirmed the Dal Pozzo provenance that was already suggested by the inscription on the back, a photograph of which has been published here for the first time. The layout that separates Venus and Adonis on the side, and the God-River on the other into two autonomous groups must have facilitated the splitting of the painting between 1740 and 1771. The Montpellier canvas was bought by Fabre before 1814. The Birch canvas probably stayed in the Boccapaduli collection for a longer period before being acquired, perhaps in 1863—1864, by Flandrin.