genre: mythological painting / depicts: long hair

instance of: painting (92) | study (2) | illumination (1) | drawing (1) | lithograph (1)

commissioned by: Philip II of Spain (1) | Constantijn Huygens (1) | Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1) | Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1) | William Imrie (1)

owned by: France (4) | Napoleon III (2) | Napoleon (1) | Lille (1) | Montpellier (1) | Louis XIV of France (1) | Frederick II of Prussia (1) | Philip II of Spain (1) | Philip III of Spain (1) | Titian (1) | Christina of Sweden (1) | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1) | Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (1) | André Le Nôtre (1) | Henri d'Orleans, Duke of Aumale (1) | Goupil & Cie (1) | Jean-Baptiste de Montullé (1) | Jean de Jullienne (1)

movement: academic art (19) | neoclassicism (6) | Venetian school (5) | High Renaissance (4) | Dutch Golden Age painting (4) | Baroque (3) | rococo (2) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (2) | Renaissance (1) | Impressionism (1) | mannerism (1) | Symbolism (1) | School of Fontainebleau (1) | Early Renaissance (1) | German Renaissance (1) | Florentine School (1)

based on: Metamorphoses (12) | Greek mythology (6) | birth of Aphrodite (6) | Iliad (2) | Odyssey (2) | Cupid and Psyche (2) | Jupiter (1) | Ovid (1) | Trojan War (1) | A Midsummer Night's Dream (1) | Norse mythology (1) | Medea (1) | Parsifal (1) | Gli Asolani (1) | Amazonomachy (1) | Venus Pudica (1) | Vénus Victrix (1) | Rape of Europa (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (10) | Peter Paul Rubens (9) | Titian (5) | Rembrandt (3) | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (3) | Alexandre Cabanel (3) | Jules Lefebvre (3) | Anders Zorn (2) | Jan Brueghel the Elder (2) | John William Waterhouse (2) | Jan Gossaert (2) | Diego Velázquez (1) | Antonio Canova (1) | Raphael (1) | Sandro Botticelli (1) | Gustave Doré (1) | Antonio da Correggio (1) | Lorenzo di Credi (1)

part of the series: Danaë (1)

material used: oil paint (89) | canvas (66) | wood (14) | copper (4) | paper (2) | tempera (2) | ink (1) | panel (1) | laid paper (1) | oak (1) | black chalk (1) | canvas (1)

collection: private collection (9) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (8) | Mauritshuis (7) | Rijksmuseum (6) | Musée d'Orsay (5) | Gemäldegalerie (5) | Hermitage Museum (3) | National Gallery (3) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (3) | Nationalmuseum (3) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (3) | Musée des Augustins (3) | Uffizi Gallery (3) | Museo del Prado (2) | Berlin State Museums (2) | Condé Museum (2) | Collection of paintings of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (2) | Leopold Museum (1)

location: Mauritshuis (7) | Rijksmuseum (6) | Gemäldegalerie (5) | Musée d'Orsay (4) | Hermitage Museum (3) | Alte Pinakothek (3) | Nationalmuseum (3) | Condé Museum (3) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (3) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (3) | Musée des Augustins (3) | Uffizi (2) | Museo del Prado (2) | National Gallery (2) | Sanssouci Picture Gallery (2) | London (1) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (1) | Louvre Museum (1)

part of: Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 195 (1)

country of origin: France (14) | Italy (2) | United Kingdom (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1863 (2) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (1) | Exposition Universelle of 1855 (1) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | Exhibition of French Artists (1) | Salon of 1861 (1) | Salon of 1839 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1897 (1) | Corps et Ombres (1) | Velázquez (1) | Corot 1796-1875 (1) | Corot. The Painter and his Models (1) | Salon of 1855 (1) | Salon of 1894 (1) | From Cranach to Monet. Highlights of the Perez Simon Collection (1)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (9) | art of sculpture (1) | washing (1) | voyeurism (1) | Leda and the Swan (1) | Rape of Persephone (1) | Rape of Europa (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | Diana bathing (1) | Perseus and Andromeda (1) | Toilet of Venus (1)

location of final assembly: London (1) | France (1) | Venice (1) | Florence (1)

fabrication method: grisaille (1) | ink wash painting (1)