genre: mythological painting / material used: wood

instance of: painting (122) | oil sketch (15) | polyptych (1) | pastel (1)

commissioned by: Philip IV of Spain (5) | Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1) | Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (1) | Constantijn Huygens (1)

owned by: Arthur Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore (6) | John G. Johnson (2) | France (1) | Louis XIV of France (1) | André Le Nôtre (1) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1) | Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer (1) | Édouard Aynard (1)

movement: Dutch Golden Age painting (6) | Symbolism (3) | German Renaissance (2) | Art Nouveau (1) | Baroque (1) | mannerism (1) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1) | academic art (1) | School of Fontainebleau (1) | Venetian school (1) | Italian Renaissance (1) | Early Renaissance (1) | High Renaissance (1) | Flemish Baroque painting (1)

based on: Metamorphoses (12) | Greek mythology (4) | Judgement of Paris (3) | Leda and the Swan (2) | Rape of Europa (2) | Books of Samuel (1) | Amazonomachy (1) | Latona and the Lycian peasants (1) | Leda and the Swan (1) | Venus trying to prevent Adonis from going hunting (1) | Hero mourns the dead Leander (1) | death of Cleopatra (1)

artist: Peter Paul Rubens (27) | Lucas Cranach the Elder (6) | Rembrandt (4) | Gustave Moreau (4) | anonymous (4) | Cima da Conegliano (3) | Arnold Böcklin (3) | Jan Gossaert (3) | Jan Brueghel the Elder (2) | Piero di Cosimo (2) | François Clouet (2) | Adriaen van der Werff (2) | Cornelis van Haarlem (2) | Frans Floris I (2) | Cesare da Sesto (2) | Michelangelo (1) | Sandro Botticelli (1) | Andrea Mantegna (1)

part of the series: Isle of the Dead (3) | The Judgment of Paris (2)

depicts: woman (38) | nudity (28) | sky (21) | Cupid (19) | umbilicus (19) | breast (18) | cloud (16) | Venus (16) | man (14) | long hair (14) | blond (14) | Aphrodite (12) | rural area (11) | putto (11) | sitting (11) | glabrousness (11) | tree (10) | Eros (9)

collection: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (20) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (15) | Rijksmuseum (12) | Mauritshuis (10) | Musée d'Orsay (4) | Berlin State Museums (4) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (3) | National Museum in Warsaw (3) | Gemäldegalerie (3) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (3) | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau (3) | Uffizi Gallery (3) | National Gallery (2) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (2) | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (2) | private collection (2) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (2) | Calvet Museum (Avignon) (2)

location: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (20) | Rijksmuseum (12) | Mauritshuis (9) | Musée d'Orsay (4) | Gemäldegalerie (4) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (3) | Alte Pinakothek (3) | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau (3) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (2) | National Gallery (2) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (2) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (2) | Louvre Palace (2) | Calvet Museum (Avignon) (2) | museum's storage space (2) | Room 710 (2) | Room 815 (2) | Room 800 (2)

part of: Isle of the Dead (2) | Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne (2) | The Myth of Prometheus (1)

country of origin: Switzerland (3) | Italy (1)

exhibition history: Mirabilis (2) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | Salon of 1866 (1) | Salon of 1880 (1) | Salon of 1875 (1) | Antoni Caba, mestre de mestres (1) | Image and Message: Cranach in the Service of the Court and the Reformation (1) | Exposition des primitifs français (1)

main subject: Leda and the Swan (6) | Judgement of Paris (4) | death (3) | Rape of Europa (2) | Diana bathing (2) | washing (1) | Rape of Persephone (1) | Galatea (1) | Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1) | Perseus and Andromeda (1) | death of Cleopatra (1) | suicide of Lucretia (1)

location of final assembly: Antwerp (1)