location: Musée d'Orsay / movement: academic art

instance of: painting (56) | statue (2) | study (1)

commissioned by: Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: France (7) | Napoleon III (1) | John Peter Moore (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

genre: portrait (14) | nude (13) | allegory (10) | history painting (7) | religious art (7) | mythological painting (6) | landscape art (3) | self-portrait (3) | genre art (3) | figure painting (3) | full-length portrait (2) | portrait at bust length (1) | idyll (1) | full-frontal portrait (1)

based on: birth of Aphrodite (2) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Franco-Prussian War (1) | 1814 campaign in France (1) | Cultural depictions of Napoleon (1) | Inferno (1) | La Jeune Tarentine (1) | Etude de nu féminin (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (9) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (8) | Léon Bonnat (6) | Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (6) | Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (5) | Alexandre Cabanel (4) | Jules Lefebvre (2) | Fernand Cormon (2) | Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (2) | Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1) | Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1) | Thomas Couture (1) | Amélie Beaury-Saurel (1) | Jean-Paul Laurens (1) | Édouard Detaille (1) | Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1) | Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1) | Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk (1)

depicts: woman (21) | nudity (16) | sitting (11) | sky (10) | brown hair (9) | man (8) | breast (8) | umbilicus (8) | long hair (7) | drapery (7) | glabrousness (6) | standing (6) | armpit (5) | painter (5) | mons pubis (5) | smile (4) | plant (4) | Cupid (4)

material used: oil paint (56) | canvas (50) | wood (6) | marble (2) | mahogany wood (2) | polychromy (1) | wax paint (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (4) | Luxembourg Museum (3) | Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (2)

country of origin: France (16)

exhibition history: Salon of 1875 (5) | Salon of 1861 (3) | Exposition Universelle of 1889 (2) | 1878 Paris World's Fair (2) | International Exposition 1867 (2) | Salon of 1864 (2) | Salon of 1863 (2) | Salon of 1870 (2) | Salon of 1847 (2) | Salon of 1857 (2) | Salon of 1866 (2) | Salon of 1849 (2) | Salon of 1902 (2) | 1873 Vienna World's Fair (1) | Exhibition of French Artists (1) | Salon of 1868 (1) | Salon of 1869 (1) | Salon of 1881 (1)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (2) | Claude Debussy (1) | crucifixion of Jesus (1) | Annunciation (1) | Madame Pasca (1) | Ethelie Madeleine Brohan (1)

fabrication method: encaustic painting (1)