material used: oil paint / collection: Hermitage Museum

instance of: painting (2,595) | tondo (2) | panel painting (1) | unfinished creative work (1) | watercolor painting (1)

commissioned by: Catherine II of Russia (1) | Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1)

owned by: Catherine II of Russia (23) | Heinrich von Brühl (20) | Louis Antoine Crozat (18) | Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (13) | Robert Walpole (12) | Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky (11) | Dmitry Tatishchev (5) | Antoine Poullain (5) | Otto Krebs (4) | Joséphine de Beauharnais (4) | Simon René de Baudouin (4) | Willem Lormier (4) | W.G. Coesvelt (4) | Étienne François, duc de Choiseul (3) | Nikolai Alexandrovich Kushelev-Bezborodko (3) | Alexander I of Russia (2) | William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (2) | Johann Karl Philipp von Cobenzl (2)

movement: Dutch Golden Age painting (13) | Impressionism (8) | Romanticism (6) | Flemish Primitives (5) | Venetian school (5) | Baroque (4) | Post-Impressionism (4) | academic art (4) | High Renaissance (4) | Orientalism (3) | neoclassicism (2) | rococo (2) | classicism (2) | mannerism (1) | Les Nabis (1) | Baroque painting (1) | Italian Renaissance (1)

genre: portrait (1,159) | religious art (253) | landscape art (177) | genre art (92) | still life (40) | self-portrait (29) | mythological painting (24) | nude (17) | marine art (12) | history painting (12) | cityscape (12) | animal painting (6) | floral painting (6) | allegory (5) | equestrian portrait (5) | schutterstuk (4) | portrait historié (4) | group portrait (3)

named after: Tannhäuser (1)

based on: Greek mythology (2) | Metamorphoses (2) | Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (2) | Book of Genesis (1) | Book of Esther (1) | Book of Judith (1) | 2 Samuel (1) | Parable of the Prodigal Son (1) | flight into Egypt (1) | 1 Samuel (1) | Saint George and the Dragon (1) | La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (1) | Penitent Magdalene (1) | the Lord appears to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre (1) | Madonna and Child (1) | Judith and Holofernes (1) | Rape of Europa (1) | Venus trying to prevent Adonis from going hunting (1)

artist: anonymous (347) | George Dawe (215) | Rembrandt (42) | Georg von Bothmann (36) | David Teniers the Younger (33) | Hubert Robert (32) | Peter Paul Rubens (25) | Anthony van Dyck (25) | Franz Krüger (23) | Paul Gauguin (19) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (19) | Paulus Potter (17) | Paul Cézanne (16) | Adriaen van Ostade (15) | Claude Monet (14) | Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder (14) | Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (12) | Alexander Kotzebue (12)

part of the series: Danaë (1) | Mont Sainte-Victoire (1) | Waterloo Bridge series (1) | Baigneuses (Bathers) (1)

depicts: woman (148) | man (137) | Virgin Mary (26) | boy (21) | Child Jesus (20) | horse (18) | child (17) | nudity (15) | dog (14) | tree (14) | sky (13) | sitting (13) | hound (12) | umbilicus (12) | breast (11) | long hair (11) | Catherine II of Russia (11) | window (10)

location: National Gallery of Art (15) | Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (8) | private collection (4) | National Museum in Warsaw (3) | Rijksmuseum (3) | Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (3) | Winter Palace (2) | Washington, D.C. (1) | Saint Petersburg (1) | Getty Center (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Mauritshuis (1) | Rheinsberg Palace (1) | Sanssouci Picture Gallery (1) | Neues Palais in Potsdam (1) | Kunsthalle Bremen (1) | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1) | General Staff Building (1)

part of: Punishment of a Hunter (14) | Ca' Dolfin Tiepolos (5) | Mary with Jesus by a fireplace (2) | Pendant portraits of an old man and an old woman (2) | The Lute Player series (1) | Joseph accused by Potiphar's wife (series) (1) | Passion (4 paintings to Descent from the Cross) (1) | The Sacrifice of Polyxena (1) | The Attributes of the Arts and the Rewards Which Are Accorded to Them (1) | Satyr and the Peasants series (1) | Three ladies playing music (1) | The Four Evangelists (1) | The Young Martyr (1)

country of origin: Italy (14) | France (1)

exhibition history: Dutch masters from the Hermitage (55) | L'invention du passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée en Europe, 1802-1850 (2) | Canaletto. Bernardo Bellotto paints Europe (2) | Salon of 1831 (1) | Salon of 1808 (1) | 3rd impressionist exhibition (1) | 4th impressionist exhibition (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Velázquez (1)

main subject: Madonna and Child (20) | Catherine II of Russia (11) | Adoration of the Magi (9) | Holy Family (8) | Annunciation (7) | Descent from the Cross (6) | Adoration of the shepherds (5) | lamentation of Christ (5) | rest on the flight into Egypt (5) | Penitent Magdalene (5) | martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (5) | Paul I of Russia (4) | Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (4) | Nativity of Jesus (3) | Alexander II of Russia (3) | Maria Feodorovna (3) | Mikhail Lazarev (3) | Philip IV of Spain (3)

location of final assembly: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (3) | Arles (2) | Auvers-sur-Oise (2) | Paris (1) | Amsterdam (1) | Sainte-Adresse (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (1)