collection: Musée d'Orsay / country of origin: France / instance of: painting / material used: oil paint / depicts: sky

commissioned by: Thomas Gold Appleton (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: Napoleon III (2) | Claude Monet (1) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1) | Paul Gachet (1) | John Peter Moore (1) | Alfred Savoir (1) | Eugène Secrétan (1) | Georges de Bellio (1) | Napoléon Alexandre Berthier (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1) | Paul-Louis Gachet (1) | John Waterloo Wilson (1)

movement: academic art (6) | Impressionism (2) | Orientalism (1)

genre: nude (6) | mythological painting (4) | genre art (3) | figure painting (2) | portrait (1) | Barbizon school (1) | landscape art (1) | cityscape (1) | allegory (1)

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

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (3) | Jean-François Millet (2) | Alexandre Cabanel (2) | Claude Monet (1) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (1) | Armand Guillaumin (1)

location: Louvre Museum (2) | Galerie nationale du Jeu de paume (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | Nantes Museum of Arts (1) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (1)

exhibition history: International Exposition 1867 (3) | Renoir (1) | Salon of 1861 (1) | Salon of 1864 (1) | Salon of 1863 (1) | 4th impressionist exhibition (1) | 1st impressionist exhibition (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1857 (1) | Salon of 1850 (1) | Secretan sale 1889 (1) | Monet & Architecture (1)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (2)

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

fabrication method: encaustic painting (1)