genre: mythological sculpture / instance of: statue

commissioned by: Nicolas Fouquet (1)

owned by: Paul IV (1) | Henry II of France (1)

movement: Hellenistic sculpture (5) | New Sculpture (1) | Greek late classical period (1)

named after: Aphrodite (1)

based on: Venus Pudica (7) | Venus of Urbino (2) | Scottish mythology (1) | Crouching Venus (1) | Venus lying (1)

artist: anonymous (5) | François Joseph Bosio (2) | Lorenzo Bartolini (2) | James Pradier (2) | Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (2) | Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain (2) | Praxiteles (1) | Aristide Maillol (1) | Pierre Paul Puget (1) | Antoine Coysevox (1) | François Girardon (1) | Edmé Bouchardon (1) | Cleomenes (1) | Laurent Marqueste (1) | Edward Onslow Ford (1) | Alexandros of Antioch (1) | Anne de Chardonnet (1) | Barthélemy Prieur (1)

depicts: woman (22) | umbilicus (19) | nudity (18) | drapery (17) | breast (16) | Venus (15) | Aphrodite (13) | chignon (12) | long hair (11) | glabrousness (11) | mons pubis (11) | toe (9) | contrapposto (9) | barefoot (9) | Diana (7) | Artemis (6) | toplessness (6) | back (6)

material used: marble (28) | bronze (5) | plaster (2) | Parian marble (2) | limestone (1) | Carrara marble (1) | onyx (1)

collection: Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (8) | Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre (6) | Borghese Collection (3) | Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon (2) | Musée des Augustins (2) | Musée d'Orsay (1) | Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille (1) | National Museum in Warsaw (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Tate (1) | National Museum of Rome (1) | Fabre museum (1) | Lady Lever Art Gallery (1) | Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre (1) | Badalona Museum (1) | Uffizi Gallery (1)

location: Room 105 (5) | Louvre Museum (1) | Uffizi (1) | Vatican Museums (1) | Tate Britain (1) | Palace of Fontainebleau (1) | Capitoline Museums (1) | Jardin d'agronomie tropicale (Paris) (1) | Naples National Archaeological Museum (1) | Tuileries Garden (1) | Hall of Mirrors (1) | Musée des Augustins (1) | jardin du Carrousel (1) | Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum (1) | Salon rouge (1) | Room 419 (1) | Room 345 (1) | Room 225 (1)

part of: Memorial to Christopher Marlowe (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1863 (1) | Salon of 1824 (1) | Salon of 1817 (1) | Caesar and the Rhône river: masterpieces of antique Arles (1)

main subject: Aphrodite (1) | hunting (1) | Toilet of Venus (1)