genre: mythological painting / country of origin: France

instance of: painting (37) | illumination (1) | film (1) | sculpture (1)

commissioned by: Louis XIV of France (2) | Giovanni Battista Sommariva (1)

owned by: Napoleon III (2) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Goupil & Cie (1) | Samuel Putnam Avery (1) | Joseph Raphael De Lamar (1) | American Art Association (1) | Charles J. Osborn (1)

movement: academic art (22) | neoclassicism (4) | Symbolism (2) | rococo (1) | French painting in the 18th century (1)

based on: Cupid and Psyche (3) | Pygmalion and Galatea (3) | Metamorphoses (2) | birth of Aphrodite (2) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Judgement of Paris (1) | Inferno (1) | Philomela and Procne (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (18) | Alexandre Cabanel (3) | Nicolas Poussin (2) | Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (2) | Jean-Baptiste Regnault (2) | Pinturicchio (1) | Gustave Doré (1) | Paul Cézanne (1) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1) | Odilon Redon (1) | François Gérard (1) | François Boucher (1) | Gustave Moreau (1) | Simon Vouet (1) | Jules Lefebvre (1) | François Girardon (1)

depicts: woman (20) | nudity (19) | umbilicus (16) | sky (14) | long hair (14) | breast (13) | chestnut hair (11) | standing (9) | drapery (9) | Cupid (8) | blond (8) | glabrousness (8) | sitting (7) | smile (6) | man (6) | Eros (6) | rural area (6) | putto (6)

material used: oil paint (36) | canvas (34) | marble (1) | canvas (1) | fresco (1)

collection: private collection (7) | Musée d'Orsay (6) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (6) | Museo del Prado (2) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Museum of the History of France (2) | Hiroshima Museum of Art (1) | Bodleian Library (1) | National Gallery (1) | Walters Art Museum (1) | National Gallery of Art (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | Clark Art Institute (1) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (1) | Salar Jung Museum (1) | New Orleans Museum of Art (1) | Art Renewal Center (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (4) | Museo del Prado (2) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | None (2) | Louvre Museum (1) | Hiroshima Museum of Art (1) | National Gallery (1) | Palace of Fontainebleau (1) | Walters Art Museum (1) | National Gallery of Art (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Louvre Palace (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | None (1) | Clark Art Institute (1) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (1) | Nantes Museum of Arts (1) | Salar Jung Museum (1)

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

exhibition history: Exposition Universelle of 1900 (1) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | Salon of 1861 (1) | Salon of 1863 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1866 (1) | Salon of 1850 (1) | Salon of 1819 (1) | Salon of 1798 (1) | Salon of 1902 (1) | Salon of 1747 (1) | Magritte. La trahison des images (1) | From Cranach to Monet. Highlights of the Perez Simon Collection (1)

main subject: art of sculpture (3) | Pygmalion and Galatea (3) | Venus Anadyomene (2) | mythology (1) | art of painting (1) | Judgement of Paris (1) | Rape of Persephone (1) | Rape of Europa (1) | Toilet of Venus (1)

published in: Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1)