genre: mythological painting / collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre

instance of: painting (120) | mural (1) | carton (1) | study (1) | reception piece (1) | sketch (1)

commissioned by: Isabella d'Este (3) | Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1) | Giovanni Battista Sommariva (1) | Louis Phélypeaux, seigneur de La Vrillière (1)

owned by: France (7) | Napoleon III (2) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Cardinal Mazarin (2) | Philip IV of Spain (2) | Louvre Museum (1) | Philip II of Spain (1) | Charles I of England (1) | Marie de' Medici (1) | André Le Nôtre (1) | Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes (1) | Thomas Charles Hope (1) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1) | Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse (1) | Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre (1) | Bernardino Spada (1) | Armand de Madaillan (1) | Louis Phélypeaux, seigneur de La Vrillière (1)

movement: neoclassicism (8) | rococo (4) | classicism (3) | academic art (3) | High Renaissance (3) | School of Fontainebleau (2) | Venetian school (2) | mannerism (1) | Italian Renaissance (1) | Early Renaissance (1) | German Renaissance (1) | French painting in the 18th century (1)

named after: Royal Palace of El Pardo (1)

based on: Greek mythology (9) | Old Testament (3) | Metamorphoses (3) | Cupid and Psyche (2) | birth of Aphrodite (2) | Iliad (1) | Aeneid (1) | Medea (1) | Books of Samuel (1) | Susanna and the Elders (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | Hero mourns the dead Leander (1) | death of Cleopatra (1)

artist: Nicolas Poussin (8) | François Boucher (4) | Giambattista Pittoni (4) | anonymous (4) | Peter Paul Rubens (3) | Andrea Mantegna (3) | Jacques-Louis David (3) | Antoine Watteau (3) | Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (3) | Paul Brill (3) | Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (3) | Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (3) | Paolo Veronese (2) | Eugène Delacroix (2) | Titian (2) | Guido Reni (2) | Lucas Cranach the Elder (2) | Jacob Jordaens (2)

depicts: woman (34) | nudity (32) | Venus (24) | putto (24) | Cupid (20) | broad-leaved tree (19) | sky (16) | umbilicus (14) | cloud (12) | breast (12) | quiver (12) | nymph (11) | landscape (10) | Eros (10) | Diana (10) | blond (10) | bow (9) | drapery (9)

material used: oil paint (118) | canvas (95) | wood (15) | copper (4) | tempera (3) | panel (3) | poplar wood (1) | beech wood (1) | oak (1) | intonaco (1)

location: Louvre Palace (10) | Room 702 (7) | Room 710 (7) | Salle des États (6) | Piazzetta (6) | Room 724 (6) | Room 716 (5) | Room 800 (5) | Room 919 (4) | Room 827 (4) | Room 712 (3) | Room 933 (3) | Room 826 (3) | Room 917 (3) | Musée d'Orsay (2) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (2) | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau (2) | Room 727 (2)

part of: Isabella d'Este Studiolo (3) | The Sacrifice of Polyxena (1)

country of origin: France (6) | Italy (3)

exhibition history: Salon of 1814 (3) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (1) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | La Galerie du temps (1) | Salon of 1808 (1) | Dominique-Vivant Denon: l'oeil de Napoléon (1) | Salon of 1789 (1) | Salon of 1861 (1) | Salon of 1863 (1) | Salon of 1839 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1819 (1) | Salon of 1798 (1) | Salon of 1817 (1) | Perugino – Raphael’s Master (1) | Salon of 1755 (1) | Salon of 1841 (1) | Salon of 1742 (1)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (3) | Judgement of Paris (2) | Toilet of Venus (2) | art of sculpture (1) | Diana and Actaeon (1) | Susanna and the Elders (1) | Rape of Europa (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | death of Cleopatra (1) | wedding of Peleus and Thetis (1) | gathering of manna (1)

location of final assembly: Mantua (3)

fabrication method: fresco painting (1) | grisaille (1)