genre: mythological painting / owned by: France

instance of: painting (10) | mosaic (1) | Roman mosaic (1)

commissioned by: Louis XIV of France (2)

movement: academic art (4) | neoclassicism (2) | rococo (1)

based on: birth of Aphrodite (2) | Greek mythology (1) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Medea (1) | Metamorphoses (1) | Judgement of Paris (1) | Inferno (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | Hero mourns the dead Leander (1)

artist: Alexandre Cabanel (2) | Jean-Baptiste Regnault (2) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (2) | Antonio da Correggio (1) | Eugène Delacroix (1) | Antoine Watteau (1) | David Teniers the Younger (1)

depicts: woman (9) | nudity (8) | sky (6) | man (5) | armpit (4) | breast (4) | long hair (4) | Aphrodite (4) | umbilicus (4) | brown hair (4) | chestnut hair (4) | Cupid (3) | Venus (3) | satyr (3) | rural area (3) | blond (3) | nymph (3) | chignon (3)

material used: oil paint (10) | canvas (9) | wood (1) | limestone (1) | marble (1) | glass paste (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (7) | Musée d'Orsay (4) | Museum of the History of France (2) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre (1) | Collection of paintings of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (3) | None (2) | Louvre Museum (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | Nantes Museum of Arts (1) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (1) | Room 712 (1) | Room 854 (1) | Room 942 (1) | Room 917 (1) | Room 412 (1)

country of origin: Italy (1)

exhibition history: International Exposition 1867 (1) | Salon of 1861 (1) | Salon of 1863 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1850 (1) | Magritte. La trahison des images (1)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (2) | art of painting (1) | art of sculpture (1) | Judgement of Paris (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1)