genre: mythological painting / movement: academic art

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instance of: painting (38)

owned by: France (4) | Napoleon III (2) | Lille (1) | Montpellier (1) | Goupil & Cie (1) | Samuel Putnam Avery (1) | Joseph Raphael De Lamar (1) | American Art Association (1) | Charles J. Osborn (1)

based on: birth of Aphrodite (4) | Cupid and Psyche (2) | Metamorphoses (2) | Pygmalion and Galatea (2) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Histories (1) | Vénus Victrix (1) | Inferno (1) | Philomela and Procne (1) | Nu de dos (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (20) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (4) | Alexandre Cabanel (4) | Jules Lefebvre (3) | Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1) | Edward Poynter (1) | Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (1) | Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1) | Albert Aublet (1) | Émile Lévy (1) | Gabriel Guay (1)

depicts: woman (24) | nudity (23) | umbilicus (20) | long hair (19) | breast (16) | sky (15) | glabrousness (14) | drapery (11) | chestnut hair (10) | armpit (9) | waist (9) | mons pubis (9) | smile (8) | Cupid (8) | back (8) | red hair (8) | brown hair (8) | nipple (7)

material used: oil paint (37) | canvas (36) | wood (1)

collection: private collection (10) | Musée d'Orsay (8) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (3) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Musée des Augustins (2) | Collection of paintings of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (2) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Walters Art Museum (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | Clark Art Institute (1) | Fabre museum (1) | Salar Jung Museum (1) | New Orleans Museum of Art (1) | Art Renewal Center (1) | Dahesh Museum of Art (1) | Museo de Arte de Ponce (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (6) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (2) | Louvre Museum (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Palace of Fontainebleau (1) | Walters Art Museum (1) | Bridgeman Art Library (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | Clark Art Institute (1) | Fabre museum (1) | Nantes Museum of Arts (1) | Salar Jung Museum (1) | New Orleans Museum of Art (1) | Musée des Augustins (1) | Dahesh Museum of Art (1)

country of origin: France (22)

exhibition history: Salon of 1863 (3) | International Exposition 1867 (2) | Salon of 1866 (2) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (1) | Salon of 1861 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1850 (1) | Salon of 1902 (1) | From Cranach to Monet. Highlights of the Perez Simon Collection (1)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (4) | art of sculpture (2) | Pygmalion and Galatea (2) | Candaulism (1) | Toilet of Venus (1)

location of final assembly: France (1)

Dante and Virgil In Hell

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1850)
Capocchio Gianni Schicchi de' Cavalcanti Dante Alighieri Virgil bite man nudity combat kneeling buttocks brown hair red hair back Huequitos para Andrea standing laurel wreath hell sky cloud wing Inferno gaze devil Gianni Schicchi

Nymphe enlevée par un faune

painting
by Alexandre Cabanel (1860)
kidnapping nymph faun satyr woman nudity blond long hair combat armpit breast umbilicus brown hair Pan flute drapery broad-leaved tree plant rural area sky laurel wreath grass flower crown herb

The Nymphaeum

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1878)
nymph woman nudity nymphaeum glabrousness sitting contrapposto lying kneeling swing body of water nude swimming Huequitos para Andrea umbilicus back long hair smile

Pandora

painting
by Alexandre Cabanel (1873)
Christina Nilsson Pandora woman chestnut hair chignon laurel wreath eyebrow blue smile lipstick shoulder see-through clothing breast nipple toplessness shirt drapery Pandora's box casket

[no title]

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1891)
Cupid

Selene

painting
by Albert Aublet (1880)
woman flight long hair glabrousness Selene blond Moon armpit breast nipple height umbilicus hip barefoot toe mountain sky cloud aerial perspective Venus mons pubis

King Candaules

painting
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1859)
Candaules Gyges of Lydia Nyssia Candaulism clothed male, naked female bedroom canopy bed curtain drapery fur bed hand fan chair clothing in ancient Greece mural woman hipshot back waist hip buttocks intergluteal cleft Gluteal sulcus steatomery barefoot sandal earring man lying brown hair male toplessness shirt headband beard alcove door wall himation malleolus

The Birth of Venus

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1879)
Venus dolphin sea Pecten maximus putto Eros nymph centaur conch sky nudity contrapposto woman Aphrodite long hair chestnut hair brown hair umbilicus Cupid Psyche hairstyle beard back bird's wing Huequitos para Andrea smile music Triton breast glabrousness bow arrow flight armpit areola nipple mons pubis

Philomela and Procne

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1861)
Philomela Procne woman sibling group standing laurel wreath wreath chiton brown hair blond akimbo tambourine necklace earring smile eye contact swallow None

Cupid with a Butterfly

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1888)
Cupid Lepidoptera

Pandora

painting
by Jules Lefebvre (1872)
Pandora girl Pandora's box nudity hipshot teenager glabrousness umbilicus breast scarf drapery brown hair long hair part laurel wreath night star casket mons pubis

The abduction of Psyche

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1895)
Cupid Psyche chestnut hair long hair mountain sky couple nudity kidnapping flight bird's wing insect wing toplessness handbra breast Eros umbilicus male toplessness hug smile love drapery woman

[no title]

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1892)

The Youth of Bacchus

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1884)
orgy satyr nymph cherub nudity Bacchus centaur dance rural area sacred grove Dionysus Erotes putto donkey blond brown hair black hair music musician frame drum tambourine cymbal grape triangle crotales long hair chignon chalumeau smile broad-leaved tree eyebrow headband laurel wreath beard armpit breast overweight areola nipple umbilicus fig leaf None hip glabrousness toe ribbon dress fur back Huequitos para Andrea buttocks intergluteal cleft Gluteal sulcus equestrianism Silenus alcohol intoxication aerial perspective sky mountain plain fauna boy child man woman chestnut hair barefoot malleolus mons pubis

Nymph and Bacchus

painting
by Jules Lefebvre (1866s)
Bacchus Dionysus nymph sitting Cupid Eros bow arrow statue nudity broad-leaved tree plant sky drapery himation

Nymphs and Satyr

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1873)
nymph satyr pond

[no title]

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1873)
Venus Aphrodite woman nudity squatting position shore beach wind wave long hair red hair hairstyle washing umbilicus breast areola nipple armpit smile sea gaze towards the viewer

Dawn

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1881)
woman see-through clothing long hair red hair scarf nudity dance glabrousness umbilicus breast areola nipple flower Aurora twilight morning armpit smell puddle rural area specular reflection sky dawn female suiting chestnut hair body of water pond water lily

Vénus victorieuse

painting
by Alexandre Cabanel (1875)
woman nudity contrapposto Pomme d'Or blond long hair breast umbilicus hip waist glabrousness steatomery pigeon drapery None chariot cloud flight mons pubis

Antigone au chevet de Polynice

painting
by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1868)
Antigone Polynices death cadaver soldier sadness

Birth of Venus

painting
by Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (1862)
woman nudity head hair sea seashell contrapposto sky Venus Aphrodite shore wind wave long hair red hair glabrousness umbilicus breast part waist mons pubis Bivalvia

Andromeda

painting
by Edward Poynter (1869)
Andromeda contrapposto nudity shore sea umbilicus rock prisoner breast red hair headband chain foam damsel in distress wind wave night glabrousness drapery None woman waist mons pubis

Diana

painting
by Jules Lefebvre (1879)
forest body of water trunk Diana Artemis woman nudity sitting long hair red hair hunter bow arrow quiver diadem breast umbilicus drapery flower water lily Moon night shore rock hip broad-leaved tree

La dernière dryade

painting
by Gabriel Guay (1876)
Dryad woman nudity standing back red hair chignon Huequitos para Andrea hip buttocks intergluteal cleft Gluteal sulcus long hair hug statue pedestal tread forest autumn branch broad-leaved tree leaf waist

Flora and Zephyr

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1875)
Zephyrus

[no title]

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1890)

The Oreads

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1902)

Les murmures de l'Amour

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1889)
girl sitting barefoot chiton blond rural area hydria long hair headband flower grass tree sky rock Eros Cupid bird's wing flight palmette putto love distraction whispering Rubus fruticosus nudity adolescence teenager rosacea

Lost Pleiad

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1884)
Merope woman nudity back Huequitos para Andrea buttocks intergluteal cleft Gluteal sulcus long hair chestnut hair ponytail Merope star sky night Pleiades glabrousness umbilicus breast waist

The Birth of Venus

painting
by Alexandre Cabanel (1863)
Venus putto sea sky wind wave foam conch nudity woman Aphrodite long hair chestnut hair lying umbilicus armpit childbirth

Pygmalion and Galatea

painting
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1890)
Pygmalion Galatea studio kiss statue tunic beard black hair red hair umbilicus standing glabrousness headband house cat clothed male, naked female chair painting gynoid woman mons pubis

Venus Rising

painting
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1890)
standing nudity woman Venus Aphrodite sea breaking wave foam sky putto long hair chestnut hair glabrousness flight bird's wing umbilicus armpit waist mons pubis

Byblis

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1884)
Byblis woman nudity forest vivarium sorrow glabrousness umbilicus breast sitting rock long hair chestnut hair specular reflection plant broad-leaved tree shore waist

The Death of Hippolytus

painting
by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1860)
Hippolytus man muscle cuirass chariot

Orpheus' death

painting
by Émile Lévy (1866)
woman death nudity Orpheus

Bacchant

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1862)
nudity lying Bacchant goat None conifer cone swagger stick woman zoophilia laurel wreath ear eyebrow rural area smile eye contact armpit glabrousness breast areola nipple umbilicus ribbon Hedera drapery dandelion barefoot waist hip toe steatomery sky plant malleolus

Pygmalion and Galatea

painting
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1890)
Pygmalion Galatea studio kiss statue brown hair chignon back Cupid Eros bow arrow clothed male, naked female mask box painting shield gynoid woman man

L'Amour et Psyché

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1890)
Cupid Psyche child kiss kneeling cloud nudity chestnut hair blond sky drapery bird's wing Eros long hair putto hug Cheek kissing boy girl couple insect wing umbilicus