genre: mythological sculpture / depicts: woman

instance of: statue (22) | sculpture (20) | fountain (2) | sculptural group (2) | sarcophagus (1) | lost sculpture (1) | work with multiple executions (1)

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

owned by: France (1) | Eugène Delacroix (1) | Paul IV (1) | Henry II of France (1) | Henriette de Verninac (1)

movement: Hellenistic sculpture (7) | neoclassicism (3) | academic art (2) | Baroque (1) | rococo (1) | classicism (1) | None (1) | Neoclassicalism (1) | Greek late classical period (1)

named after: Aphrodite (1)

based on: Venus Pudica (8) | Cupid and Psyche (2) | Venus of Urbino (2) | Crouching Venus (1) | Latona and the Lycian peasants (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | Venus lying (1)

artist: anonymous (5) | Antonio Canova (4) | Lorenzo Bartolini (2) | Alexandre Falguière (2) | Auguste Rodin (1) | Carl Milles (1) | Praxiteles (1) | Aristide Maillol (1) | Dhione Barboza (1) | Étienne Maurice Falconet (1) | Antoine Coysevox (1) | François Girardon (1) | John Gibson (1) | Cleomenes (1) | Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1) | Alexandros of Antioch (1) | Anne de Chardonnet (1) | Barthélemy Prieur (1)

material used: marble (30) | bronze (9) | Carrara marble (3) | onyx (2) | plaster (2) | limestone (1) | granite (1) | ivory (1) | paint (1) | cast iron (1) | Parian marble (1) | Marbre blanc (1)

collection: Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre (6) | Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (5) | Borghese Collection (4) | Lady Lever Art Gallery (3) | Musée des Augustins (2) | Musée Saint-Raymond (1) | British Museum (1) | Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille (1) | Hermitage Museum (1) | Victoria and Albert Museum (1) | Tate (1) | Musée Carnavalet (1) | Musée Rodin (1) | Galleria Borghese (1) | National Museum of Rome (1) | Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon (1) | Fabre museum (1) | Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre (1)

location: Capitoline Museums (2) | Galleria Borghese (2) | Escalier Darcy (2) | Louvre Museum (1) | Uffizi (1) | Vatican Museums (1) | Tate Britain (1) | Palace of Fontainebleau (1) | Victoria and Albert Museum (1) | Collections of the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (1) | Naples National Archaeological Museum (1) | Tuileries Garden (1) | Norrmalm (1) | Hall of Mirrors (1) | Woburn Abbey (1) | Museo archeologico regionale Paolo Orsi (1) | Gardens of Versailles (1) | jardin du Carrousel (1)

part of: The Three Graces (1)

country of origin: France (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1808 (1) | Dominique-Vivant Denon: l'oeil de Napoléon (1) | Caesar and the Rhône river: masterpieces of antique Arles (1) | The Moon: From real travel to imaginary journeys (1)

main subject: hunting (2) | Rape of Persephone (2) | Aphrodite (1) | Pauline Bonaparte (1) | Leda and the Swan (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1)

location of final assembly: Italy (1) | Rome (1)

fabrication method: haut-relief technique (1) | bas-relief (1)