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

instance of: painting (29) | study (1)

commissioned by: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1)

owned by: Napoleon III (2) | Eugénie de Montijo (1) | Goupil & Cie (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | Samuel Putnam Avery (1) | Joseph Raphael De Lamar (1) | George W. Lininger (1) | American Art Association (1) | Charles J. Osborn (1)

based on: birth of Aphrodite (2) | Book of Genesis (1) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Cupid and Psyche (1) | Metamorphoses (1) | Daphnis and Chloe (1) | The Ant and the Grasshopper (1) | Paul (1) | Virginie (1) | Inferno (1) | Etude de nu féminin (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (20) | Jules Lefebvre (3) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (2) | Alexandre Cabanel (2) | Pierre Auguste Cot (1) | Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1)

depicts: nudity (22) | woman (21) | umbilicus (21) | long hair (20) | breast (18) | sky (13) | glabrousness (12) | brown hair (11) | drapery (10) | nipple (9) | chestnut hair (9) | smile (8) | armpit (8) | plant (8) | waist (8) | contrapposto (8) | sitting (8) | sea (7)

collection: Musée d'Orsay (7) | private collection (4) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (3) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (3) | Luxembourg Museum (2) | Museo del Prado (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | National Gallery of Victoria (1) | San Antonio Museum of Art (1) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana (1) | Salar Jung Museum (1) | Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens (1) | Art Renewal Center (1) | Musée Anne de Beaujeu (1) | Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (6) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (3) | Louvre Museum (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | National Gallery of Victoria (1) | San Antonio Museum of Art (1) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana (1) | Nantes Museum of Arts (1) | Salar Jung Museum (1) | Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens (1) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (1) | Musée Anne de Beaujeu (1) | Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1863 (2) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | Salon of 1861 (1) | Salon of 1870 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1850 (1) | Salon of 1880 (1) | Salon of 1877 (1) | From Cranach to Monet. Highlights of the Perez Simon Collection (1)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (2) | lesbian (1) | truth (1) | admiration (1) | Toilet of Venus (1)