depicts: drapery

instance of: painting (369) | statue (95) | sculpture (72) | study (21) | drawing (19) | statuette (16) | statue of Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ (9) | watercolor painting (8) | mural (4) | amphora (3) | artwork copy (3) | fountain (2) | heritage site (1) | illumination (1) | sarcophagus (1) | hand fan (1) | archaeological artifact (1) | anonymous work (1)

commissioned by: Louis XIV of France (3) | Napoleon (2) | Caroline Bonaparte (2) | France (1) | Augustus (1) | Philip II of Spain (1) | Suzanne Curchod (1) | William I of Württemberg (1) | Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona (1) | Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas (1) | Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1) | Scipione Borghese (1) | Dominique Vivant (1) | Halil Şerif Paşa (1) | Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1) | William Bingham (1) | Pieter van Ruijven (1) | Charles de Beauvau, Prince of Beauvau (1)

owned by: France (21) | Musée Saint-Raymond (4) | Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste de Clarac (4) | Louis XIV of France (3) | Louis XV of France (2) | Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer (2) | Netherlands (1) | Paris (1) | United Kingdom (1) | Montpellier (1) | Napoleon III (1) | Cardinal Richelieu (1) | Juan Luna (1) | Eugène Delacroix (1) | Frederick II of Prussia (1) | Gustave Courbet (1) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1) | Titian (1)

movement: academic art (56) | Orientalism (41) | neoclassicism (37) | Dutch Golden Age painting (19) | neo-Pompeian (17) | Baroque (13) | Hellenistic sculpture (13) | mannerism (12) | Venetian school (12) | rococo (10) | classicism (4) | Egyptian Revival (4) | Gothic sculpture (3) | Romanticism (2) | Naturalism (2) | Symbolism (2) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (2) | Realism (2)

genre: nude (262) | genre art (91) | mythological painting (74) | portrait (59) | religious art (59) | full-length portrait (38) | history painting (31) | allegory (29) | mythological sculpture (29) | public art (24) | sculptural group (18) | still life (17) | half-length portrait (15) | statue of Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ (9) | bust (8) | three-quarter portait (8) | full-frontal portrait (6) | figure painting (5)

named after: Aphrodite (1) | Karyes (1)

based on: death of Cleopatra (19) | Metamorphoses (10) | Penitent Magdalene (6) | Venus Pudica (5) | Susanna and the Elders (4) | Pygmalion and Galatea (4) | Greek mythology (3) | Cupid and Psyche (3) | Dance of the Seven Veils (3) | Drunken old woman (2) | Book of Judith (2) | Venus of Urbino (2) | Madonna and Child (2) | Etude de nu féminin (2) | Iliad (1) | Book of Genesis (1) | Hamlet (1) | Trojan War (1)

artist: anonymous (27) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (22) | John William Godward (18) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (14) | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (11) | Jules Lefebvre (10) | Pieter Claesz (9) | Anders Zorn (8) | Jacopo Tintoretto (7) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (7) | Aristide Maillol (7) | Francesco Hayez (7) | Diego Velázquez (6) | François Boucher (6) | Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (6) | Peter Paul Rubens (5) | Gustave Courbet (5) | Titian (5)

part of the series: Danaë (2) | Monument to Balzac (2) | Pergamene Gauls (1)

material used: oil paint (342) | canvas (281) | marble (101) | wood (44) | bronze (24) | paper (19) | canvas (9) | watercolor paint (9) | Carrara marble (7) | terracotta (7) | sanguine (6) | cast iron (5) | panel (5) | copper (4) | stone (4) | limestone (4) | Parian marble (4) | graphite (3)

collection: Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (56) | private collection (47) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (42) | Musée d'Orsay (31) | Rijksmuseum (18) | Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre (18) | Hermitage Museum (10) | Nationalmuseum (10) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (8) | Walters Art Museum (8) | Mauritshuis (7) | Musée des Augustins (6) | The Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles (6) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (5) | Musée Saint-Raymond (5) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (5) | Museo del Prado (5) | Albertina (5)

location: Musée d'Orsay (22) | Room 219 (19) | Rijksmuseum (18) | Nationalmuseum (10) | Hermitage Museum (8) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (8) | Louvre Museum (7) | Mauritshuis (7) | Tuileries Garden (7) | jardin du Carrousel (7) | Louvre Palace (6) | Luxembourg Museum (6) | bosquet des Dômes (6) | Versailles domain (6) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (5) | Museo del Prado (5) | Albertina (5) | Royal Castle (5)

part of: Monument to Balzac (2) | Virgin of the rocks (1) | Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1) | Statue of Liberty National Monument (1) | Danish Culture Canon (1) | Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 195 (1) | Blookerpark (1) | Huize Padua (1) | Kapelstraat (1) | Complex Bernaertsstraat (1) | Memorial to Christopher Marlowe (1)

country of origin: France (35) | United States of America (7) | Italy (4) | Spain (3) | United Kingdom (1)

exhibition history: 1873 Vienna World's Fair (4) | Velázquez (4) | Ex-pots cassés. Histoires de restauration (4) | International Exposition 1867 (3) | Salon of 1863 (3) | Salon of 1814 (3) | Salon of 1870 (3) | Corot 1796-1875 (3) | Corot. The Painter and his Models (3) | 1878 Paris World's Fair (2) | Salon of 1808 (2) | Salon of 1866 (2) | Salon of 1819 (2) | Salon of 1880 (2) | Europeana 280 (2) | Art grec de la terre à l'image (2) | Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (2) | Mémoire grecque (2)

main subject: death of Cleopatra (19) | Penitent Magdalene (6) | Madonna and Child (5) | washing (4) | Leda and the Swan (4) | Candaulism (4) | Susanna and the Elders (4) | Pygmalion and Galatea (4) | Louis XIV of France (3) | art of sculpture (3) | Salome (3) | Toilet of Venus (3) | Bathsheba at her bath (3) | lesbian (2) | Death of the Virgin Mary (2) | Diana bathing (2) | suicide of Lucretia (2) | Sappho (1)

donated by: Juan Luna (1)

location of final assembly: Rome (5) | Campania (2) | Cairo (1) | Delft (1) | Apulia (1) | Florence (1) | Attica (1) | Cagnes-sur-Mer (1) | Liberty Island (1) | Manufacture nationale de Sèvres (1) | Chailly-en-Bière (1) | boulevard de Clichy (1)

fabrication method: trois crayons (5) | bas-relief (5) | slipware (3) | highlight (3) | chiaroscuro (1) | relief sculpture (1) | encaustic painting (1) | repoussé (1) | ink wash painting (1) | gilding (1) | miltos (1)

time period: Baroque (2) | Gallo-Roman culture (1)