material used: canvas / country of origin: France / genre: nude / depicts: sky

instance of: painting (19) | study (1)

commissioned by: Giovanni Battista Sommariva (1)

owned by: Napoleon III (2) | Gustave Courbet (1) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Jean-Baptiste Faure (1) | Louisine Havemeyer (1) | Paul Durand-Ruel (1) | Goupil & Cie (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | Henry Osborne Havemeyer (1) | Samuel Putnam Avery (1) | Joseph Raphael De Lamar (1) | George W. Lininger (1) | American Art Association (1) | Charles J. Osborn (1)

movement: academic art (13) | neoclassicism (2) | Orientalism (1) | Realism (1)

based on: Cupid and Psyche (2) | birth of Aphrodite (2) | Book of Genesis (1) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Metamorphoses (1) | Inferno (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | Etude de nu féminin (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (10) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (2) | Alexandre Cabanel (2) | Gustave Doré (1) | Gustave Courbet (1) | François Gérard (1) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (1) | Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1)

collection: Musée d'Orsay (6) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (6) | private collection (3) | Luxembourg Museum (2) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana (1) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (1) | Collection of paintings of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (1) | Pérez Simón Collection (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (5) | Louvre Museum (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (1) | Birmingham 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) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (1) | Room 702 (1) | Room 934 (1)

exhibition history: Ghent (1) | Brussels metropolitan area (1) | Musée d'Orsay (1) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Pinacoteca di Brera (1) | Alte Pinakothek (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Städel Museum (1) | Kunsthalle Hamburg (1) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (1) | Royal Academy of Arts (1) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1) | Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte (1) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (1) | Brooklyn Museum (1) | Haus der Kunst (1) | Wallraf–Richartz Museum (1) | Nationalmuseum (1)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (2) | lesbian (1) | art of sculpture (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1)

location of final assembly: Cagnes-sur-Mer (1)