genre: mythological painting / material used: oil paint

instance of: painting (1,092) | oil sketch (15) | study (6) | tondo (2) | sketch (2) | oil painting (2) | panel painting (1) | triptych (1) | polyptych (1) | carton (1) | reception piece (1) | lost artwork (1) | engraving (1) | envoi de Rome (1) | fresco (1)

commissioned by: Philip IV of Spain (6) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Philip II of Spain (2) | Isabella d'Este (2) | Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (2) | Cassiano dal Pozzo (2) | Louis XV of France (1) | Charles V (1) | Julius II (1) | Joachim Murat (1) | Clement IX (1) | Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1) | Constantijn Huygens (1) | Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1) | Vincenzo Giustiniani (1) | Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1) | Alfonso d'Este, Lord of Montecchio (1) | Odoardo Farnese (1)

owned by: Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (15) | France (10) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (8) | Arthur Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore (6) | Louis XIV of France (4) | Birmingham Museum of Art (4) | Bartolomeo della Nave (4) | Christina of Sweden (3) | Dallas Museum of Art (3) | Herbert Cook (3) | Antoine Poullain (3) | Napoleon III (2) | Louis XV of France (2) | Philip II of Spain (2) | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (2) | Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (2) | Cardinal Mazarin (2) | Philip IV of Spain (2)

movement: Venetian school (38) | academic art (37) | neoclassicism (29) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (29) | High Renaissance (17) | rococo (14) | mannerism (14) | Baroque (13) | Dutch Golden Age painting (12) | Symbolism (11) | classicism (11) | Baroque painting (4) | Renaissance (3) | Early Renaissance (3) | Art Nouveau (2) | School of Fontainebleau (2) | Italian Renaissance (2) | Flemish Baroque painting (2)

named after: Royal Palace of El Pardo (1) | Tu Marcellus eris (1)

based on: Metamorphoses (48) | Greek mythology (47) | Rape of Europa (12) | Judgement of Paris (10) | birth of Aphrodite (7) | Cupid and Psyche (6) | Venus and Adonis (6) | Iliad (5) | Pygmalion and Galatea (4) | Old Testament (3) | Odyssey (3) | Milky Way (2) | Susanna and the Elders (2) | Ovid (1) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Trojan War (1) | Aeneid (1) | A Midsummer Night's Dream (1)

artist: Peter Paul Rubens (73) | anonymous (44) | Titian (37) | John William Waterhouse (27) | Nicolas Poussin (26) | Gustave Moreau (21) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (20) | François Boucher (16) | Jacob Jordaens (16) | Johann Heinrich Tischbein (15) | Pompeo Batoni (13) | Paolo Veronese (12) | Lucas Cranach the Elder (12) | Edward Burne-Jones (12) | Jacques-Louis David (11) | David Teniers the Younger (11) | Rembrandt (10) | Anthony van Dyck (9)

part of the series: Isle of the Dead (5) | The Judgment of Paris (5) | Danaë (3) | Medusa (1)

depicts: woman (312) | nudity (198) | Venus (139) | Cupid (132) | man (122) | sky (117) | umbilicus (102) | breast (92) | long hair (89) | cloud (83) | putto (78) | sitting (68) | blond (67) | Aphrodite (65) | rural area (64) | Eros (62) | drapery (60) | tree (55)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (118) | private collection (81) | National Museum in Warsaw (77) | Statens Museum for Kunst (44) | Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel (44) | Museo del Prado (40) | Rijksmuseum (32) | National Gallery (29) | Musée d'Orsay (28) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (25) | Hermitage Museum (24) | Mauritshuis (22) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (21) | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (17) | Uffizi Gallery (16) | Museum of the History of France (15) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (13) | Musée Gustave-Moreau (12)

location: museum's storage space (46) | Statens Museum for Kunst (44) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (43) | Museo del Prado (39) | Rijksmuseum (31) | National Museum in Warsaw (27) | Musée d'Orsay (25) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (25) | Hermitage Museum (22) | National Gallery (21) | Mauritshuis (21) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (20) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (16) | private collection (16) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (12) | Musée Gustave-Moreau (12) | Gemäldegalerie (11) | National Gallery of Art (11)

part of: Nine scenes from Heliodorus' Aethiopica (8) | The Sacrifice of Polyxena (3) | Isle of the Dead (2) | Isabella d'Este Studiolo (2) | Black Paintings (1) | The Myth of Prometheus (1) | Jupiter and Antiope (1) | Punishment of a Hunter (1) | Satyr and the Peasants series (1) | Amorum emblemata (1)

country of origin: France (36) | Italy (20) | Spain (12) | United States of America (5) | Switzerland (5) | Finland (1) | Netherlands (1) | United Kingdom (1) | Rome (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1866 (4) | International Exposition 1867 (3) | Salon of 1863 (3) | Salon of 1814 (3) | Europeana 280 (3) | Velázquez (3) | Corot 1796-1875 (3) | Mirabilis (3) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (2) | Salon of 1861 (2) | Salon of 1869 (2) | Salon of 1891 (2) | Corps et Ombres (2) | The Moon: From real travel to imaginary journeys (2) | Exposition Universelle of 1889 (1) | Exposition Universelle of 1855 (1) | La Galerie du temps (1) | Exhibition of French Artists (1)

main subject: Judgement of Paris (15) | Rape of Europa (14) | Venus Anadyomene (12) | Leda and the Swan (9) | Diana and Callisto (6) | Toilet of Venus (6) | death (5) | Sacrifice of Iphigenia (5) | art of sculpture (4) | Pygmalion and Galatea (4) | Diana bathing (4) | Candaulism (3) | Diana and Actaeon (3) | Perseus and Andromeda (3) | suicide of Lucretia (3) | Charites (2) | Rape of Persephone (2) | Orpheus and Eurydice (2)

donated by: Marquess of Hertford (1)

location of final assembly: France (6) | Rome (3) | Italy (2) | Mantua (2) | Brussels metropolitan area (2) | Germany (1) | Venice (1) | Florence (1) | Meissen (1) | Antwerp (1) | Vehmersalmi (1)

published in: Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art (1) | Artemisia Gentileschi: 68 Paintings (1) | The Art of Understanding Art: A Behind the Scenes Story (1) | Artemisia Gentileschi: 52 Masterpieces (1)

fabrication method: chiaroscuro (7) | oil painting (3) | grisaille (2) | fresco painting (1)