depicts: back / instance of: painting / movement: academic art

commissioned by: Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: France (3) | Eugénie de Montijo (1) | John Peter Moore (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

genre: nude (23) | genre art (12) | mythological painting (8) | landscape art (1) | self-portrait (1) | allegory (1) | religious art (1) | figure painting (1) | full-length portrait (1)

based on: The Divine Comedy (1) | Histories (1) | Inferno (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | birth of Aphrodite (1) | Nu de dos (1)

artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme (14) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (7) | Édouard Debat-Ponsan (1) | Jules Lefebvre (1) | Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1) | Gabriel Guay (1)

material used: oil paint (25) | canvas (25) | wax paint (1)

collection: private collection (7) | Musée d'Orsay (3) | Art Institute of Chicago (2) | Musée des Augustins (2) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (2) | musée Georges-Garret (2) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (1) | Museo de Arte de Ponce (1) | Haggin Museum (1) | Pérez Simón Collection (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (3) | Art Institute of Chicago (2) | Musée des Augustins (2) | musée Georges-Garret (2) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | Nantes Museum of Arts (1) | Legion of Honor (1) | Museo de Arte de Ponce (1) | Haggin Museum (1) | Haussner's Restaurant (1)

country of origin: France (7)

exhibition history: Salon of 1863 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1857 (1) | Salon of 1850 (1) | From Cranach to Monet. Highlights of the Perez Simon Collection (1)

main subject: lesbian (1) | art of sculpture (1) | washing (1) | Venus Anadyomene (1) | Candaulism (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1)

fabrication method: encaustic painting (1)