collection: Musée d'Orsay / country of origin: France / movement: academic art

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

commissioned by: Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: Napoleon III (2) | John Peter Moore (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

genre: nude (7) | mythological painting (6) | allegory (5) | religious art (3) | portrait (2) | figure painting (2) | landscape art (1) | history painting (1) | idyll (1) | genre art (1) | full-frontal portrait (1) | full-length portrait (1)

based on: birth of Aphrodite (2) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Inferno (1) | Philomela and Procne (1) | Etude de nu féminin (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (11) | Alexandre Cabanel (5) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (1) | Jules Lefebvre (1) | Jean-Paul Laurens (1)

depicts: woman (10) | nudity (7) | brown hair (7) | sky (6) | breast (6) | umbilicus (6) | armpit (5) | standing (5) | smile (4) | man (4) | long hair (4) | blond (4) | glabrousness (4) | drapery (4) | plant (3) | back (3) | nipple (3) | hip (3)

material used: oil paint (19) | canvas (19) | wax paint (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 national du Château de Fontainebleau (1)

exhibition history: 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 1863 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1857 (1) | Salon of 1850 (1) | Salon of 1849 (1) | Salon of 1897 (1) | Salon of 1902 (1) | Salon of 1898 (1)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (2)

fabrication method: encaustic painting (1)