collection: Musée d'Orsay / genre: mythological painting

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30 artworks found

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

owned by: France (4) | Napoleon III (2)

movement: academic art (8) | neoclassicism (1) | Realism (1)

based on: birth of Aphrodite (2) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Parsifal (1) | Inferno (1) | Philomela and Procne (1)

artist: Gustave Moreau (4) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (4) | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (2) | Alexandre Cabanel (2) | Ker-Xavier Roussel (2) | Arnold Böcklin (1) | Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1) | Henri Fantin-Latour (1) | Georges Rochegrosse (1) | Jules Lefebvre (1) | Emmanuel Frémiet (1) | Henri-Edmond Cross (1) | Jean-Jacques Henner (1) | Hans Thoma (1) | Jules-Élie Delaunay (1) | François-Louis Français (1) | Alexandre Desgoffe (1) | Joseph Blanc (1)

depicts: nudity (15) | woman (9) | broad-leaved tree (8) | sky (7) | brown hair (6) | flower (5) | Cupid (5) | long hair (5) | armpit (4) | breast (4) | umbilicus (4) | arrow (4) | Venus (4) | nymph (4) | chestnut hair (4) | smile (3) | plant (3) | cloud (3)

material used: oil paint (28) | canvas (25) | wood (4) | gold (1) | marble (1)

location: Louvre Museum (1) | Palace of Fontainebleau (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg (1) | Nantes Museum of Arts (1) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (1) | Musée des beaux-arts de Nîmes (1) | Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau (1)

country of origin: France (6) | Italy (1)

exhibition history: International Exposition 1867 (3) | Salon of 1866 (3) | Salon of 1861 (2) | Salon of 1872 (2) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (1) | Exhibition of French Artists (1) | Salon of 1865 (1) | Salon of 1863 (1) | Salon of 1870 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1850 (1) | Salon of 1880 (1) | Salon of 1867 (1) | Salon of 1875 (1) | Salon of 1902 (1) | Corot 1796-1875 (1) | Salon of 1855 (1) | Salon of 1894 (1)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (2) | Galatea (1)

Daphnis and Chloé

painting
by François-Louis Français (1872)

Dante and Virgil In Hell

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1850)
Capocchio Gianni Schicchi de' Cavalcanti Dante Alighieri Virgil bite man nudity combat kneeling buttocks brown hair red hair back Huequitos para Andrea standing laurel wreath hell sky cloud wing Inferno gaze devil Gianni Schicchi

Nymphe enlevée par un faune

painting
by Alexandre Cabanel (1860)
kidnapping nymph faun satyr woman nudity blond long hair combat armpit breast umbilicus brown hair Pan flute drapery broad-leaved tree plant rural area sky laurel wreath grass flower crown herb

Orphés

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1865)
Orpheus lyre

Galatea

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1880s)
Polyphemus

sleeping nymphe

painting
by Charles Haslewood Shannon (1915)
Cervus elaphus broad-leaved tree flower nudity sleep

Hesiod and the Muse

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1891)
Hesiod lyre Muses

La Fuite des nymphes

painting
by Henri-Edmond Cross (1906s)

The Birth of Venus

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1879)
Venus dolphin sea Pecten maximus putto Eros nymph centaur conch sky nudity contrapposto woman Aphrodite long hair chestnut hair brown hair umbilicus Cupid Psyche hairstyle beard back bird's wing Huequitos para Andrea smile music Triton breast glabrousness bow arrow flight armpit areola nipple mons pubis

Philomela and Procne

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1861)
Philomela Procne woman sibling group standing laurel wreath wreath chiton brown hair blond akimbo tambourine necklace earring smile eye contact swallow None

The hunt of Diana

painting
by Arnold Böcklin (1896)
hunting dog hill Diana broad-leaved tree arrow landscape torrent stream

Le Chevalier aux fleurs

painting
by Georges Rochegrosse (1894)
clothed male, naked female group of humans man chestnut hair standing body armor sword woman nudity kneeling lying half reclining long hair chignon red hair brown hair blond breast back wreath flower meadow rural area plant sky cloud

Venus in Paphos

painting
by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1852s)
Cupid woman laurel tree nudity apple sitting temple Venus

Rape of Leucippus' daughters

painting
by Ker-Xavier Roussel (1911)
treelet broad-leaved tree flower nudity meadow

Nymph and Bacchus

painting
by Jules Lefebvre (1866s)
Bacchus Dionysus nymph sitting Cupid Eros bow arrow statue nudity broad-leaved tree plant sky drapery himation

Le Mille e una notte

painting
by Vittorio Zecchin (1914s)

Perseus

painting
by Joseph Blanc (1869)

Vénus et l'Amour au bord de la mer

painting
by Ker-Xavier Roussel (1908s)
Cupid broad-leaved tree littoral zone nudity Venus

Jason

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1865)
column flower garland Jason Medea nudity sceptre Golden Fleece

The Oreads

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1902)

Naïade

painting
by Jean-Jacques Henner (1875)
woman broad-leaved tree lake naiad nudity

Jupiter and Antiope

painting
by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1851)
Antiope Cupid Eros Jupiter Zeus satyr faun sleep nudity arch quiver arrow long hair lying chestnut hair armpit breast nipple umbilicus glabrousness bird's wing broad-leaved tree grass shore watercourse brown hair beard trunk understory cloud sky rural area hip waist steatomery mons pubis tree bow

The Birth of Venus

painting
by Alexandre Cabanel (1863)
Venus putto sea sky wind wave foam conch nudity woman Aphrodite long hair chestnut hair lying umbilicus armpit childbirth

Hercules delivering Hesione

painting
by Hans Thoma (1890)

Orpheus' death

painting
by Émile Lévy (1866)
woman death nudity Orpheus

Diana

painting
by Jules-Élie Delaunay (1872)
watercourse Diana woman nudity

Terpsichore

painting
by Louis-Frederic Schützenberger (1861s)

La Danse des nymphes

painting
by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1850)
glade tree dance nymph morning folk dance landscape

Pan et oursons

sculpture
by Emmanuel Frémiet (1867)
Pan prone position smile crown None grape swagger stick entertainment bread Ursidae meals

Awakening

painting
by Henri Fantin-Latour (1903s)