genre: mythological painting / depicts: Cupid

instance of: painting (142) | fresco (8) | sculpture (2) | statue (1) | reception piece (1) | engraving (1)

commissioned by: Isabella d'Este (2) | Charles V (1) | Vincenzo Giustiniani (1) | Giovanni Battista Sommariva (1)

owned by: France (3) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (3) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Philip IV of Spain (2) | Basel (1) | Philip II of Spain (1) | Titian (1) | Christina of Sweden (1) | Charles I of England (1) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (1) | Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1) | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1) | Ferdinand II (1) | Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1) | Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (1) | Gemäldegalerie (1) | Cardinal Mazarin (1) | Marie de' Medici (1)

movement: Venetian school (12) | academic art (8) | ancient Roman mural painting (7) | neoclassicism (6) | mannerism (6) | Baroque (3) | Baroque painting (2) | Renaissance (1) | Art Nouveau (1) | rococo (1) | classicism (1) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1) | School of Fontainebleau (1) | Early Renaissance (1) | German Renaissance (1)

named after: Royal Palace of El Pardo (1)

based on: Metamorphoses (17) | Greek mythology (6) | Venus and Adonis (6) | Cupid and Psyche (4) | Pygmalion and Galatea (2) | epithalamium (1) | Milky Way (1) | classical mythology (1) | Venus Pudica (1) | Venus with a Mirror (1) | Venus trying to prevent Adonis from going hunting (1) | birth of Aphrodite (1) | Venus and Cupid (1) | Hero mourns the dead Leander (1)

artist: anonymous (21) | Titian (9) | Peter Paul Rubens (6) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (6) | Paolo Veronese (5) | Godfried Schalcken (4) | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (3) | Nicolas Poussin (3) | Hans von Aachen (3) | David Teniers the Younger (3) | Andrea Mantegna (2) | Annibale Carracci (2) | Jacopo Tintoretto (2) | Caravaggio (2) | Antoine Watteau (2) | Lucas Cranach the Elder (2) | Francesco Albani (2) | Bartholomeus Spranger (2)

part of the series: Danaë (1)

material used: oil paint (132) | canvas (93) | wood (19) | fresco (8) | panel (6) | copper (3) | marble (3) | tempera (3) | paint (2) | canvas (2) | oak (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (20) | National Museum in Warsaw (16) | private collection (8) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (7) | Statens Museum for Kunst (7) | Musée d'Orsay (5) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (5) | National Gallery (4) | Rijksmuseum (4) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (4) | Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel (4) | Museo del Prado (3) | Gemäldegalerie (3) | National Gallery of Art (3) | Naples National Archaeological Museum (3) | Condé Museum (3) | Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (3) | Uffizi Gallery (3)

location: museum's storage space (11) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (7) | Statens Museum for Kunst (7) | Musée d'Orsay (5) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (5) | National Gallery (4) | Rijksmuseum (4) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (4) | Condé Museum (4) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (4) | Museo del Prado (3) | Gemäldegalerie (3) | National Gallery of Art (3) | Hermitage Museum (2) | National Museum in Warsaw (2) | Alte Pinakothek (2) | Mauritshuis (2) | private collection (2)

part of: Isabella d'Este Studiolo (2) | Amorum emblemata (1)

country of origin: France (8) | Italy (5)

exhibition history: L'Empire de la couleur (7) | Exposition Universelle of 1855 (1) | Salon of 1808 (1) | Dominique-Vivant Denon: l'oeil de Napoléon (1) | Salon of 1814 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1866 (1) | Salon of 1819 (1) | Salon of 1827 (1) | Salon of 1798 (1) | Corps et Ombres (1) | Antoni Caba, mestre de mestres (1) | Velázquez (1) | Image and Message: Cranach in the Service of the Court and the Reformation (1) | Salon of 1855 (1)

main subject: art of sculpture (2) | Venus Anadyomene (2) | Pygmalion and Galatea (2) | Leda and the Swan (1) | Judgement of Paris (1) | Toilet of Venus (1)

location of final assembly: Mantua (2) | Rome (1) | Antwerp (1)

published in: Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art (1) | Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Artemisia Gentileschi: 68 Paintings (1) | The Art of Understanding Art: A Behind the Scenes Story (1) | Artemisia Gentileschi: 52 Masterpieces (1)

fabrication method: fresco painting (8) | chiaroscuro (2)