genre: mythological painting / depicts: breast

instance of: painting (94) | study (2) | illumination (1) | pastel (1)

commissioned by: Louis XIV of France (1) | Constantijn Huygens (1) | Philip IV of Spain (1) | Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1) | Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1)

owned by: France (4) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Philip II of Spain (2) | Christina of Sweden (2) | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (2) | Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (2) | Napoleon (1) | Lille (1) | Montpellier (1) | Napoleon III (1) | Frederick II of Prussia (1) | Philip III of Spain (1) | Titian (1) | Charles I of England (1) | Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1) | Ferdinand II (1) | Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1) | Cardinal Mazarin (1)

movement: academic art (16) | Venetian school (8) | neoclassicism (6) | mannerism (6) | rococo (3) | High Renaissance (3) | School of Fontainebleau (2) | Dutch Golden Age painting (2) | Baroque (1) | Symbolism (1) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1) | Early Renaissance (1) | German Renaissance (1) | Florentine School (1)

named after: Royal Palace of El Pardo (1)

based on: Metamorphoses (18) | birth of Aphrodite (4) | Greek mythology (3) | Cupid and Psyche (2) | Pygmalion and Galatea (2) | death of Cleopatra (2) | Odyssey (1) | A Midsummer Night's Dream (1) | Medea (1) | Parsifal (1) | epithalamium (1) | Milky Way (1) | Judgement of Paris (1) | Venus Pudica (1) | Vénus Victrix (1) | Leda and the Swan (1) | Cephalus and Procris (1) | Venus trying to prevent Adonis from going hunting (1)

artist: Peter Paul Rubens (8) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (8) | Titian (6) | Jacopo Tintoretto (3) | Alexandre Cabanel (3) | Jules Lefebvre (3) | anonymous (3) | Rembrandt (2) | Paolo Veronese (2) | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (2) | Anders Zorn (2) | Piero di Cosimo (2) | Jan Gossaert (2) | Bartholomeus Spranger (2) | Giampietrino (2) | Gustave Doré (1) | Annibale Carracci (1) | Antonio da Correggio (1)

part of the series: Danaë (1)

material used: oil paint (92) | canvas (68) | wood (18) | copper (1) | paper (1) | pastel (1) | parchment (1) | poplar wood (1) | oak (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (12) | Rijksmuseum (7) | private collection (6) | Gemäldegalerie (5) | Musée d'Orsay (4) | Hermitage Museum (3) | Nationalmuseum (3) | Uffizi Gallery (3) | Museo del Prado (2) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | National Gallery (2) | Walters Art Museum (2) | Mauritshuis (2) | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (2) | Berlin State Museums (2) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (2) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Collection of paintings of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (2)

location: Rijksmuseum (7) | Gemäldegalerie (5) | Musée d'Orsay (3) | Uffizi (3) | Hermitage Museum (3) | Nationalmuseum (3) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (2) | Museo del Prado (2) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | National Gallery (2) | Walters Art Museum (2) | Mauritshuis (2) | Sanssouci Picture Gallery (2) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (2) | Louvre Palace (2) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (2) | Salle des États (2)

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

country of origin: France (13) | Spain (1) | United States of America (1) | Italy (1) | United Kingdom (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1863 (2) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (1) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | Exhibition of French Artists (1) | Salon of 1861 (1) | Salon of 1839 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1798 (1) | Salon of 1897 (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 (6) | Leda and the Swan (4) | Toilet of Venus (3) | art of sculpture (2) | Pygmalion and Galatea (2) | death of Cleopatra (2) | voyeurism (1) | Judgement of Paris (1) | Diana bathing (1)

location of final assembly: France (2) | London (1) | Venice (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (1)