genre: mythological sculpture / depicts: drapery

instance of: statue (17) | sculpture (10) | archaeological artifact (1) | fountain (1) | anonymous work (1) | sculptural group (1) | statuette (1) | lost sculpture (1) | work with multiple executions (1)

commissioned by: Louis XIV of France (1) | Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona (1) | John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor (1)

owned by: France (1) | United Kingdom (1) | Eugène Delacroix (1) | Henriette de Verninac (1)

movement: neoclassicism (4) | Hellenistic sculpture (2) | rococo (1) | classicism (1) | Greek late classical period (1)

named after: Aphrodite (1)

based on: Venus Pudica (4) | Venus of Urbino (2) | Cupid and Psyche (1) | Crouching Venus (1) | Latona and the Lycian peasants (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | Venus lying (1)

artist: Antonio Canova (4) | anonymous (4) | Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (3) | Lorenzo Bartolini (2) | Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain (2) | Praxiteles (1) | Étienne Maurice Falconet (1) | Antoine Coysevox (1) | François Girardon (1) | James Pradier (1) | John Gibson (1) | Edward Onslow Ford (1) | Alexandros of Antioch (1) | François Barois (1) | Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy (1) | Joseph Chinard (1)

material used: marble (24) | bronze (3) | Carrara marble (2) | Parian marble (2) | limestone (1) | cast iron (1)

collection: Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (8) | Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre (4) | Musée d'Orsay (2) | Borghese Collection (2) | Musée Saint-Raymond (1) | Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille (1) | Hermitage Museum (1) | Tate (1) | Musée Carnavalet (1) | Galleria Borghese (1) | National Museum of Rome (1) | Fabre museum (1) | Lady Lever Art Gallery (1) | Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre (1)

location: Room 105 (3) | Room 225 (2) | Louvre Museum (1) | Vatican Museums (1) | Tate Britain (1) | Apsley House (1) | Naples National Archaeological Museum (1) | Galleria Borghese (1) | Gardens of Versailles (1) | Latona Parterre (1) | Room 345 (1) | Michelangelo Gallery (1) | Room 222 (1) | Room 344 (1) | Room 180 (1) | Saint-Raymond Museum reserves (1) | in depot of the musée du Louvre or in temporary movement (1)

part of: Memorial to Christopher Marlowe (1)

country of origin: France (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1808 (1) | Dominique-Vivant Denon: l'oeil de Napoléon (1) | Salon of 1863 (1) | Salon of 1824 (1) | Caesar and the Rhône river: masterpieces of antique Arles (1)

main subject: Aphrodite (1) | hunting (1) | Pauline Bonaparte (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | Toilet of Venus (1)

time period: Gallo-Roman culture (1)