collection: Musée d'Orsay / genre: allegory

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48 artworks found

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instance of: painting (40) | statue (5) | sculpture (4) | mural (2) | triptych (1)

commissioned by: Halil Şerif Paşa (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: France (4) | Gustave Doré (1) | Jacques Lacan (1) | Ferenc Hatvany (1) | Halil Şerif Paşa (1) | Tanneguy Duchâtel (1) | John Peter Moore (1) | Sylvia Bataille (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1) | Juliette Courbet (1)

movement: academic art (10) | neoclassicism (1) | Realism (1)

based on: Vénus Anadyomène (1) | Penitent Magdalene (1) | Melancholia (1) | The Kiss of the Muse (1)

artist: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (7) | Paul Cézanne (5) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (4) | Gustave Courbet (2) | Aristide Maillol (2) | Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (2) | Georges de Feure (2) | Alphonse Osbert (2) | Gustave Doré (1) | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1) | Henri Rousseau (1) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (1) | Edward Burne-Jones (1) | Henri Fantin-Latour (1) | Antoine Bourdelle (1) | Thomas Couture (1) | Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1) | Luc-Olivier Merson (1)

depicts: woman (24) | nudity (17) | breast (9) | night (5) | umbilicus (5) | waist (5) | barefoot (5) | sitting (5) | armpit (4) | long hair (4) | nipple (4) | glabrousness (4) | malleolus (4) | mons pubis (4) | child (3) | man (3) | tree (3) | cadaver (3)

material used: oil paint (42) | canvas (39) | cast iron (4) | wood (3) | bronze (2) | stone (1) | marble (1) | wax paint (1)

location: Musée Granet (3) | La Piscine (1) | Musée Hyacinthe-Rigaud (1)

country of origin: France (5)

exhibition history: Salon of 1857 (2) | San Francisco (1) | Warsaw (1) | Budapest (1) | Verona (1) | Madrid (1) | Strasbourg (1) | Bucharest (1) | Nashville (1) | Bourg-en-Bresse (1) | Ornans (1) | Brooklyn Museum (1) | Beyeler Foundation (1) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (1) | 1878 Paris World's Fair (1) | Exhibition of French Artists (1) | Salon of 1852 (1) | Salon of 1870 (1)

main subject: Africa (1) | Asia (1) | Île-de-France (1) | Penitent Magdalene (1)

fabrication method: encaustic painting (1)

La Guerre

painting
by Henri Rousseau (1894)
cadaver horse raven sword woman broad-leaved tree cloud torch

Incense

painting
by Fernand Khnopff (1898)

The dream

painting
by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1883)
love woman divine glory man night wealth sleep

The Kiss of the Muse

painting
by Paul Cézanne (1860)
Muses kiss window desk poet

Torse du printemps

sculpture
by Aristide Maillol (1911s)
chest spring

L'Île de france

statue / sculpture
by Aristide Maillol (1921s)
woman mons pubis Île-de-France

Apotheosis of Delacroix

painting
by Paul Cézanne (1890s)
angel apotheosis applause painter swagger stick hat dog umbrella landscape bag

La Vérité

painting
by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1879)
child woman mirror nudity well truth

Seasons of life

painting
by Ker-Xavier Roussel (1892s)
tree woman old age

North America

statue / sculpture
by Ernest-Eugène Hiolle (1878)
woman North America Americas rudder nudity sitting

The Dance

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1856)
cloud dance woman day night drapery partner dance sitting tambourine barefoot toplessness clothing blond wreath black hair headband brown hair breast back Huequitos para Andrea smile sky chiton malleolus

La Femme étranglée

painting
by Paul Cézanne (1876s)
woman strangling

La Vérité

mural
by Luc-Olivier Merson (1901)

History

painting
by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1866)

L'Énigme

painting
by Gustave Doré (1871)
sphinx theater angel cadaver Paris conflagration cannon ruins

The Wheel of Fortune

painting
by Edward Burne-Jones (1883)
Wheel of Fortune king enslaved person slavery woman man laurel wreath wheel sceptre

Abundantia. Les dons de la terre

mural
by Hans Makart (1870)
breastfeeding child woman fruit nudity Earth vegetation

Might

statue
by Antoine Bourdelle (1918)
man club lion

Vigilence

painting
by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1866)

Equality Before Death

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1848)

Harmony of sea evening

painting
by Alphonse Osbert (1930)

Fléau !

painting
by Henri-Camille Danger (1901)

Night

painting
by Henri Fantin-Latour (1897)
woman Moon nudity night putto

Africa

statue / sculpture
by Eugène Delaplanche (1878)
woman Africa bijou belt knife fruit vegetable nudity basket dress breast sitting veil

Comédie humaine

painting
by Jean-Louis Hamon (1852s)

Les Âges de l'ouvrier

painting / triptych
by Léon Frédéric (1900s)
toddler breastfeeding childhood crowd old age work manual worker baby

Night

painting
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1850)
nudity woman flight drapery toplessness barefoot night sky breast black hair headband part long hair armpit Moon gaze twilight star Phoebe torch

The Source

painting
by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1856)
woman contrapposto nudity water clay pot pitcher Hedera helix river source spring umbilicus glabrousness breast chestnut hair long hair flower Narcissus specular reflection armpit areola part waist gaze towards the viewer mons pubis

La Madeleine

painting
by Paul Cézanne (1869)
Mary Magdalena woman kneeling human skull pain mortification of the flesh long hair

Moorning

painting
by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1866)

The Romans of the Decadence

painting
by Thomas Couture (1847)
banquet ancient history alcohol intoxication lust nudity Paeonia apple portico grape rose vase clothing

Youth and Love

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1877)
woman nudity Eros Cupid putto bird's wing breast areola nipple waist umbilicus glabrousness hip chestnut hair chignon eye contact blue blond smile ear human tooth barefoot toe drapery watercourse understory tree broad-leaved tree plant Narcissus trunk malleolus youth

The pigeon

painting
by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1871)

Truth

painting
by Jules Lefebvre (1870)
woman standing contrapposto personification brown hair long hair bangs eyebrow armpit breast umbilicus hip glabrousness electric light light electrical cable stream shore night lighting plant torch truth waist nudity steatomery barefoot toe nipple watercourse leaf rural area malleolus mons pubis

Fortune and the young child

painting
by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1857s)
tree Cupid nudity well Venus

The siege of Paris

painting
by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1884)
Germany cadaver cannon horse flag child woman soldier Paris old age city

Inspiration

painting
by Alphonse Osbert (1927)

Bethsabée

painting
by Paul Cézanne (1885)
Bathsheba domestic worker woman nudity

Source

painting
by Gustave Courbet (1868)
woman nudity sitting back chignon brown hair water Huequitos para Andrea buttocks intergluteal cleft nude swimming spring river source waterfall shore body of water broad-leaved tree rock grass rural area specular reflection steatomery hip waist barefoot malleolus bathing

The balloon

painting
by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1870)

The Assault

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1898)

Asia

statue
by Alexandre Falguière (1878)
woman elephant sitting Asia hairstyle deity nudity dress sculpture in the round breast

Mater Triumphalis

painting
by Annie Swynnerton (1892)
woman nudity contrapposto armpit breast nipple umbilicus glabrousness steatomery waist mons pubis Bivalvia

Death and the Maiden

painting
by Marianne Stokes (1908)
bedroom woman lantern bed death fear

Allégorie d'un art appliqué

painting
by Georges de Feure (1900)