material used: canvas / country of origin: France / movement: academic art

instance of: painting (77) | study (1)

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

owned by: Napoleon III (2) | Eugénie de Montijo (1) | Theo van Gogh (1) | Goupil & Cie (1) | Detroit Institute of Arts (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | John Peter Moore (1) | James Edmund Scripps (1) | William Edmund Scripps (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 (29) | mythological painting (22) | genre art (14) | allegory (14) | idyll (9) | religious art (8) | portrait (5) | history painting (4) | battle painting (3) | pastoral (2) | figure painting (2) | landscape art (1) | self-portrait (1) | portrait at bust length (1) | equestrian portrait (1) | full-frontal portrait (1) | full-length portrait (1)

based on: Cupid and Psyche (2) | birth of Aphrodite (2) | Book of Genesis (1) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Metamorphoses (1) | Daphnis and Chloe (1) | Maestà (1) | The Ant and the Grasshopper (1) | Paul (1) | Virginie (1) | Inferno (1) | Madonna and Child (1) | Philomela and Procne (1) | Study for "Diogenes" (1) | Etude de nu féminin (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (56) | Alexandre Cabanel (7) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (4) | Jules Lefebvre (4) | Charles-Philippe Larivière (3) | Pierre Auguste Cot (1) | Jean-Paul Laurens (1) | Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1)

depicts: woman (34) | long hair (30) | nudity (25) | sky (24) | umbilicus (23) | breast (22) | barefoot (22) | sitting (17) | brown hair (16) | malleolus (16) | drapery (15) | girl (14) | smile (13) | cloud (13) | rural area (13) | chestnut hair (13) | blond (12) | glabrousness (12)

collection: Musée d'Orsay (19) | private collection (18) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (4) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (3) | Museum of the History of France (3) | Walters Art Museum (2) | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Joslyn Art Museum (2) | Luxembourg Museum (2) | Museo del Prado (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Académie des Beaux-Arts (1) | Hearst Castle (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Indianapolis Museum of Art (1) | Denver Art Museum (1) | Detroit Institute of Arts (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (16) | Galerie des Batailles (3) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (3) | Walters Art Museum (2) | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Joslyn Art Museum (2) | Louvre Museum (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Palace of Fontainebleau (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Académie des Beaux-Arts (1) | Hearst Castle (1) | Petit Palais (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Indianapolis Museum of Art (1) | Denver Art Museum (1) | Detroit Institute of Arts (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1863 (2) | Salon of 1870 (2) | Salon of 1875 (2) | Salon of 1877 (2) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (1) | 1878 Paris World's Fair (1) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | Exhibition of French Artists (1) | Salon of 1861 (1) | Salon of 1839 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1857 (1) | Salon of 1850 (1) | Salon of 1880 (1) | Salon of 1849 (1) | Salon of 1897 (1) | Salon of 1902 (1) | Salon of 1837 (1)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (2) | Madonna and Child (2) | lesbian (1) | truth (1) | poverty (1) | Pietà (1) | French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1) | Maestà (1) | admiration (1) | Toilet of Venus (1)

fabrication method: encaustic painting (1)