depicts: woman / material used: canvas / movement: academic art

instance of: painting (121) | study (4) | tondo (1)

commissioned by: École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (2) | Georges Petit (1) | Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: France (5) | Napoleon III (2) | Lille (1) | Montpellier (1) | Toulouse (1) | Eugénie de Montijo (1) | Goupil & Cie (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | John Peter Moore (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)

genre: nude (67) | genre art (27) | mythological painting (23) | portrait (17) | allegory (12) | history painting (10) | religious art (9) | half-length portrait (6) | full-length portrait (6) | portrait at bust length (5) | landscape art (2) | self-portrait (2) | idyll (1) | figure painting (1) | full-frontal portrait (1)

based on: birth of Aphrodite (4) | Metamorphoses (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | Pygmalion and Galatea (2) | Etude de nu féminin (2) | Book of Genesis (1) | Hamlet (1) | Aeneid (1) | Cupid and Psyche (1) | Daphnis and Chloe (1) | Histories (1) | Maestà (1) | The Ant and the Grasshopper (1) | Paul (1) | Virginie (1) | Vénus Victrix (1) | Madonna and Child (1) | Philomela and Procne (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (38) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (36) | Jules Lefebvre (14) | Alexandre Cabanel (6) | Fernand Cormon (3) | Léon Bonnat (2) | Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (2) | Albert Aublet (2) | Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1) | Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1) | Pierre Auguste Cot (1) | Édouard Debat-Ponsan (1) | Thomas Couture (1) | Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1) | Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre (1) | Edward Poynter (1) | Henri Regnault (1) | Jean-Paul Laurens (1)

collection: private collection (32) | Musée d'Orsay (22) | Musée des Augustins (5) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (5) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (4) | musée Georges-Garret (4) | Hermitage Museum (3) | Art Institute of Chicago (3) | Walters Art Museum (2) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (2) | Luxembourg Museum (2) | Clark Art Institute (2) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Collection of paintings of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (2) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | National Museum in Warsaw (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Kunsthalle Hamburg (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (18) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (4) | musée Georges-Garret (4) | Hermitage Museum (3) | Art Institute of Chicago (3) | Musée des Augustins (3) | Walters Art Museum (2) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (2) | Clark Art Institute (2) | Nantes Museum of Arts (2) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (2) | Salon rouge (2) | Louvre Museum (1) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Kunsthalle Hamburg (1) | Palace of Fontainebleau (1)

country of origin: France (34)

exhibition history: Salon of 1863 (5) | Salon of 1875 (4) | International Exposition 1867 (3) | Salon of 1870 (2) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (1) | Exposition Universelle of 1889 (1) | 1878 Paris World's Fair (1) | Salon of 1861 (1) | Salon of 1864 (1) | Salon of 1843 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1857 (1) | Salon of 1866 (1) | Salon of 1880 (1) | Salon of 1874 (1) | Salon of 1877 (1) | Salon of 1902 (1) | Salon of 1859 (1)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (4) | art of sculpture (3) | washing (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | Madonna and Child (2) | Pygmalion and Galatea (2) | lesbian (1) | truth (1) | Salome (1) | Candaulism (1) | Madame Pasca (1) | Maestà (1) | admiration (1) | Toilet of Venus (1) | death of Cleopatra (1)

location of final assembly: Paris (1) | France (1) | Rome (1)

fabrication method: encaustic painting (1)