artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau

instance of: painting (144) | study (4)

commissioned by: École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: France (3) | Charles Yerkes (2) | Louisa Holthuysen (2) | Theo van Gogh (1) | Goupil & Cie (1) | Detroit Institute of Arts (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | John Peter Moore (1) | James Edmund Scripps (1) | William Edmund Scripps (1) | Samuel Putnam Avery (1) | Joseph Raphael De Lamar (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1) | George W. Lininger (1) | American Art Association (1) | Charles J. Osborn (1)

movement: academic art (95) | Naturalism (1)

genre: nude (25) | genre art (20) | mythological painting (20) | allegory (14) | religious art (11) | idyll (10) | portrait (8) | portrait at bust length (8) | half-length portrait (7) | profile (3) | pastoral (2) | figure painting (2) | elegy (1) | landscape art (1) | self-portrait (1) | history painting (1) | full-length portrait (1)

based on: Cupid and Psyche (2) | Book of Genesis (1) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Metamorphoses (1) | Maestà (1) | Inferno (1) | Madonna and Child (1) | Philomela and Procne (1) | birth of Aphrodite (1)

depicts: woman (45) | long hair (31) | girl (28) | barefoot (25) | sky (24) | sitting (24) | nudity (23) | umbilicus (20) | black hair (20) | malleolus (20) | smile (18) | breast (17) | brown hair (17) | blond (16) | cloud (15) | eyebrow (15) | rural area (14) | dress (14)

material used: oil paint (132) | canvas (122) | canvas (3) | panel (1) | woven fabric (1) | wax paint (1)

collection: private collection (46) | Musée d'Orsay (11) | Cleveland Museum of Art (6) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (3) | Carnegie Museum of Art (3) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (2) | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (2) | Joslyn Art Museum (2) | Clark Art Institute (2) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (2) | Amsterdam Museum (2) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Philbrook Museum of Art (2) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (2) | Israel Museum (1) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Hermitage Museum (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (9) | Cleveland Museum of Art (6) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (3) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (2) | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (2) | Carnegie Museum of Art (2) | Joslyn Art Museum (2) | Clark Art Institute (2) | Amsterdam Museum (2) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Birmingham (1) | Getty Center (1) | Israel Museum (1) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Hermitage Museum (1) | Palace of Fontainebleau (1) | Walters Art Museum (1)

country of origin: France (59)

exhibition history: Salon of 1877 (2) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (1) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | Exhibition of French Artists (1) | Salon of 1861 (1) | Salon of 1863 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1857 (1) | Salon of 1850 (1) | Salon of 1849 (1) | Salon of 1897 (1) | Salon of 1902 (1) | Salon of 1859 (1) | Salon of 1898 (1) | From Cranach to Monet. Highlights of the Perez Simon Collection (1)

main subject: Madonna and Child (4) | lesbian (1) | poverty (1) | Pietà (1) | Venus Anadyomene (1) | Maestà (1) | admiration (1) | lovesickness (1) | Toilet of Venus (1)

donated by: Arthur I. Appleton (1)

location of final assembly: France (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (1) | encaustic painting (1)