genre: mythological painting / collection: Museum of the History of France

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instance of: painting (15)

commissioned by: Louis XIV of France (2) | Louis XV of France (1)

owned by: France (2) | Louis XV of France (2) | Louis XIV of France (2)

movement: neoclassicism (2)

based on: Marie Adelaide of France as Diana (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1)

artist: René-Antoine Houasse (7) | Jean-Marc Nattier (2) | Jean-Baptiste Regnault (2) | Noël Coypel (2) | Charles de La Fosse (1) | Claude Audran the Younger (1)

depicts: cloud (5) | woman (4) | tree (4) | bow (4) | Minerva (4) | quiver (4) | sky (3) | Mercury (3) | Apollo (3) | helmet (3) | deity (3) | putto (3) | sitting (3) | Jupiter (2) | man (2) | parliament (2) | sleep (2) | Artemis (2)

material used: oil paint (15) | canvas (15)

location: None (2) | Dauphine’s bedchamber (2)

country of origin: France (2)

exhibition history: Magritte. La trahison des images (1)

main subject: art of painting (1) | art of sculpture (1) | Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1)

The Birth of Minerva

painting
by René-Antoine Houasse (17th century)
shield helmet Diana deity javelin Jupiter Mercury Minerva birth cloud parliament sleep Vulcan

The Origin of Sculpture

painting
by Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1786)
Pygmalion prayer man sculptor chestnut hair drapery mallet Galatea statue woman nudity sitting bird breast pedestal rose brasero smoke cupola low-angle shot clothed male, naked female gynoid chignon rotunda

Dispute between Minerva and Neptune over the Naming of the City of Athens

painting
by René-Antoine Houasse (1689)
horse deity Juno Jupiter Minerva Neptune paganism

Minerva teaches the art of sculpture to the people of Rhodes

painting
by René-Antoine Houasse (17th century)
weapon teaching Minerva parliament sculpture

Henriette of France as Flora

painting
by Jean-Marc Nattier (1742)
Princess Henriette of France woman half reclining flower Flora sky wreath sandal dress smile cloud Papaver décolletage

Morpheus awakening as Iris draws near

painting
by René-Antoine Houasse (1688s)
Morpheus putto

The Origin of Painting

painting
by Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1786)
couple man woman Halterneck sitting drawing headscarf chignon chestnut hair daughter painter charcoal pedestal column walking stick silhouette dog shadow herder standing blond piccolo oboe wind instrument teenager tree sky cloud low-angle shot rural area

Story of Apollo - Apollo and Mercury

painting
by Noël Coypel (1688)
Apollo tree bow quiver lyre Mercury

Minerva and Arachne

painting
by René-Antoine Houasse (1706)
Arachne shield helmet spinning spear Minerva

Marie Adelaide of France as Diana

painting
by Jean-Marc Nattier (1745)
Princess Marie Adélaïde of France woman Diana sitting bow sandal dress arrow quiver tree rock watercourse sky cloud Artemis décolletage

Mercury and Argus

painting
by René-Antoine Houasse (1688)
Argus Panoptes livestock recorder medicine Mercury landscape sleep

Mars on his chariot pulled by wolves

painting
by Claude Audran the Younger (1673)
chariot wolf cloud putto trophy

Story of Apollo - Apollo Crowned by Victory after Having Slayed Python

painting
by Noël Coypel (1688)
Apollo tree bow quiver crown Laurus nobilis lyre putto snake

Apollo pursuing Daphne

painting
by René-Antoine Houasse (1677)
Apollo bow quiver running Daphne deity

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

painting
by Charles de La Fosse (1712s)
Artemis doe Agamemnon Iphigenia Calchas sacrifice helmet vase Sacrifice of Iphigenia