depicts: sky / artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau

instance of: painting (24)

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

owned by: France (3) | 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)

movement: academic art (24)

genre: nude (11) | mythological painting (9) | genre art (8) | idyll (5) | allegory (4) | pastoral (1) | history painting (1) | religious art (1) | figure painting (1)

based on: Cupid and Psyche (2) | Book of Genesis (1) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Inferno (1) | birth of Aphrodite (1)

material used: oil paint (24) | canvas (24) | wax paint (1)

collection: private collection (7) | Musée d'Orsay (3) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (2) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (2) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Académie des Beaux-Arts (1) | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Denver Art Museum (1) | San Diego Museum of Art (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (1) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana (1) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (1) | New Orleans Museum of Art (1) | Philbrook Museum of Art (1) | Pérez Simón Collection (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (3) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (2) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Académie des Beaux-Arts (1) | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Denver Art Museum (1) | San Diego Museum of Art (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana (1) | Nantes Museum of Arts (1) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (1) | New Orleans Museum of Art (1)

country of origin: France (20)

exhibition history: International Exposition 1867 (1) | Salon of 1863 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1857 (1) | Salon of 1850 (1) | Salon of 1859 (1) | From Cranach to Monet. Highlights of the Perez Simon Collection (1)

main subject: lesbian (1) | poverty (1) | Venus Anadyomene (1)

location of final assembly: France (1)

fabrication method: encaustic painting (1)