depicts: sky / movement: academic art

instance of: painting (46) | study (1)

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

owned by: France (5) | Napoleon III (2) | Lille (1) | Theo van Gogh (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 (23) | mythological painting (15) | genre art (14) | idyll (5) | allegory (5) | history painting (4) | religious art (4) | portrait (2) | landscape art (2) | full-length portrait (2) | self-portrait (1) | portrait at bust length (1) | pastoral (1) | equestrian portrait (1) | figure painting (1)

based on: birth of Aphrodite (4) | Cupid and Psyche (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | Book of Genesis (1) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Franco-Prussian War (1) | Cultural depictions of Napoleon (1) | Inferno (1) | Study for "The Tulip Folly" (1) | Dutch Cavalier (1) | Etude de nu féminin (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (24) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (13) | Alexandre Cabanel (2) | Jules Lefebvre (2) | Léon Bonnat (1) | Édouard Detaille (1) | Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (1) | Alfred Stevens (1) | Albert Aublet (1)

material used: oil paint (46) | canvas (45) | wood (3) | wax paint (1)

collection: Musée d'Orsay (11) | private collection (9) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (4) | Walters Art Museum (2) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (2) | Collection of paintings of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (2) | Hermitage Museum (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Académie des Beaux-Arts (1) | Hearst Castle (1) | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Denver Art Museum (1) | Condé Museum (1) | San Diego Museum of Art (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | Yale University Art Gallery (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (10) | Walters Art Museum (2) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (2) | Nantes Museum of Arts (2) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (2) | Louvre Museum (1) | Hermitage Museum (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Académie des Beaux-Arts (1) | Hearst Castle (1) | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Denver Art Museum (1) | Condé Museum (1) | San Diego Museum of Art (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | Yale University Art Gallery (1)

country of origin: France (24)

exhibition history: Salon of 1863 (4) | International Exposition 1867 (3) | Salon of 1859 (2) | Salon of 1861 (1) | Salon of 1847 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1857 (1) | Salon of 1866 (1) | Salon of 1850 (1) | Salon of 1875 (1) | Salon of 1888 (1) | From Cranach to Monet. Highlights of the Perez Simon Collection (1)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (4) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | lesbian (1) | poverty (1) | French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1)

location of final assembly: France (1)

fabrication method: encaustic painting (1)