genre: nude / material used: marble

instance of: statue (105) | sculpture (51) | statuette (19) | sculptural group (4) | statue of Jesus (2) | table (1) | artwork original version (1) | creative work (1) | lost sculpture (1) | work with multiple executions (1) | Fugitive Love motive (1)

commissioned by: John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (1) | Suzanne Curchod (1) | Joséphine de Beauharnais (1) | Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona (1) | Nicolas Fouquet (1) | Alfred Mosselman (1) | Charles de Beauvau, Prince of Beauvau (1) | John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor (1) | Pietro Paolo Castellani (1) | Metello Vari (1)

owned by: France (5) | Eugène de Beauharnais (1) | Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1) | Alfred Mosselman (1) | Armand Charles de La Porte de La Meilleraye (1) | Charles de Beauvau, Prince of Beauvau (1)

movement: Hellenistic sculpture (9) | Italian Renaissance (8) | High Renaissance (6) | neoclassicism (5) | academic art (3) | New Sculpture (3) | archaic sculpture (2) | Greek late classical period (2) | Art Nouveau (1) | Baroque (1) | Romanesque art (1) | rococo (1) | Symbolism (1) | Roman art (1) | Neoclassicalism (1)

named after: Aphrodite (1) | Apollo (1) | Meleager (1)

based on: Venus Pudica (7) | Cupid and Psyche (2) | Metamorphoses (2) | Venus of Urbino (2) | Trojan Horse (1) | Book of Daniel (1) | Salammbô (1) | Farnese Hercules (1) | Apollo Sauroctonos (1) | Diadumenos (1) | Scottish mythology (1) | Crouching Venus (1) | Susanna and the Elders (1) | La Jeune Tarentine (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | Neapolitan fisherboy (1) | La Méditerranée (1) | Venus lying (1)

artist: Michelangelo (14) | anonymous (14) | Antonio Canova (5) | Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (4) | James Pradier (4) | Aristide Maillol (3) | Étienne Maurice Falconet (3) | François Joseph Bosio (3) | Lorenzo Bartolini (3) | Alexandre Falguière (3) | Auguste Rodin (2) | Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (2) | Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (2) | Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain (2) | Auguste Clésinger (2) | Denis Foyatier (2) | Louis-Philippe Mouchy (2) | Maurice Ferrary (2)

depicts: nudity (79) | woman (53) | umbilicus (50) | drapery (49) | man (45) | breast (31) | glabrousness (29) | sitting (27) | mons pubis (27) | long hair (24) | toe (21) | barefoot (21) | buttocks (18) | chignon (16) | standing (16) | back (15) | hairstyle (15) | intergluteal cleft (15)

collection: Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (61) | Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre (14) | Musée d'Orsay (11) | Borghese Collection (8) | Musée des Augustins (7) | National Museum in Warsaw (6) | Hermitage Museum (4) | Lady Lever Art Gallery (4) | Vatican Museums (3) | Tate (3) | Luxembourg Museum (3) | Farnese collection (3) | British Museum (2) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | Bargello (2) | Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy (2) | National Archaeological Museum (2) | Naples National Archaeological Museum (2)

location: Room 219 (20) | Room 105 (8) | Room 225 (8) | Musée d'Orsay (6) | Naples National Archaeological Museum (5) | Tuileries Garden (5) | Michelangelo Gallery (4) | Room 220 (4) | Hermitage Museum (3) | National Museum in Warsaw (3) | Vatican Museums (3) | Tate Britain (3) | Capitoline Museums (3) | Luxembourg Museum (3) | Room 170 (3) | Room 344 (3) | Louvre Museum (2) | Uffizi (2)

part of: Tomb of Pope Julius II (2) | The Three Graces (2) | Slaves (2)

country of origin: France (1) | Ancient Greece (1)

exhibition history: 1878 Paris World's Fair (3) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (2) | 1873 Vienna World's Fair (2) | Salon of 1863 (2) | Salon of 1814 (2) | Salon of 1824 (2) | Salon of 1872 (2) | Exposition Universelle of 1889 (1) | Exposition Universelle of 1855 (1) | Salon of 1831 (1) | Salon of 1822 (1) | Salon of 1839 (1) | Salon of 1833 (1) | Salon of 1847 (1) | Salon of 1850 (1) | Salon of 1890 (1) | Salon of 1845 (1) | Salon of 1877 (1)

main subject: Leda and the Swan (2) | Île-de-France (1) | Laocoön (1) | Aphrodite (1) | Apollo (1) | Diana (1) | Pauline Bonaparte (1) | Susanna and the Elders (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | Toilet of Venus (1) | martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (1)

location of final assembly: Rome (2) | Florence (1)

fabrication method: sculpture in the round (1) | bas-relief (1)

time period: classical antiquity (1) | Italian Renaissance (1)