instance of: painting / movement: academic art

commissioned by: École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (2) | Georges Petit (1) | Eugénie de Montijo (1) | Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: France (7) | Napoleon III (2) | Bucharest (2) | Lille (1) | Montpellier (1) | Toulouse (1) | Eugénie de Montijo (1) | Theo van Gogh (1) | Goupil & Cie (1) | Detroit Institute of Arts (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | John Peter Moore (1) | National Gallery of Armenia (1) | James Edmund Scripps (1) | William Edmund Scripps (1) | Samuel Putnam Avery (1) | Joseph Raphael De Lamar (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

genre: nude (86) | portrait (50) | genre art (49) | mythological painting (38) | history painting (30) | religious art (24) | allegory (22) | portrait at bust length (16) | half-length portrait (11) | idyll (10) | full-length portrait (10) | self-portrait (7) | figure painting (6) | landscape art (5) | battle painting (4) | profile (3) | pastoral (2) | Orientalism (1)

based on: Penitent Magdalene (4) | birth of Aphrodite (4) | Cupid and Psyche (2) | Metamorphoses (2) | Pygmalion and Galatea (2) | Etude de nu féminin (2) | death of Cleopatra (2) | Book of Genesis (1) | Greek mythology (1) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Hamlet (1) | Franco-Prussian War (1) | Aeneid (1) | Daphnis and Chloe (1) | Antony and Cleopatra (1) | Augustan History (1) | Histories (1) | Maestà (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (95) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (65) | Jules Lefebvre (17) | Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (14) | Léon Bonnat (10) | Juan Luna (8) | Lawrence Alma-Tadema (8) | Alexandre Cabanel (8) | Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (7) | Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (7) | Fernand Cormon (5) | Jean-Paul Laurens (5) | Charles-Philippe Larivière (4) | Henri-Pierre Picou (4) | Franz Xaver Winterhalter (3) | Thomas Couture (3) | Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (3) | Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre (2)

depicts: woman (132) | nudity (77) | long hair (77) | sitting (61) | breast (59) | standing (55) | umbilicus (53) | man (48) | drapery (47) | sky (46) | black hair (46) | barefoot (40) | brown hair (38) | glabrousness (36) | hip (32) | waist (32) | girl (31) | smile (30)

material used: oil paint (282) | canvas (261) | wood (16) | paper (4) | canvas (3) | mahogany wood (2) | cardboard (2) | die (1) | pastel (1) | gouache paint (1) | wax paint (1)

collection: Musée d'Orsay (69) | private collection (58) | Musée des Augustins (23) | Walters Art Museum (12) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (7) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (6) | musée Georges-Garret (6) | Clark Art Institute (5) | Hermitage Museum (4) | Nantes Museum of Arts (4) | Museum of the History of France (4) | Art Institute of Chicago (3) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (3) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (3) | Rijksmuseum (2) | Château de Compiègne (2) | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (2)

location: Musée d'Orsay (56) | Musée des Augustins (20) | Walters Art Museum (12) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (7) | musée Georges-Garret (6) | Clark Art Institute (5) | Nantes Museum of Arts (5) | Palace of Versailles (4) | Hermitage Museum (4) | Galerie des Batailles (4) | Art Institute of Chicago (3) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (3) | Château de Compiègne (3) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (3) | Rijksmuseum (2) | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (2) | National Museum of Art of Romania (2)

country of origin: France (79) | Romania (2) | United Kingdom (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1875 (7) | Salon of 1863 (6) | International Exposition 1867 (5) | Salon of 1861 (4) | Salon of 1864 (3) | Salon of 1870 (3) | Salon of 1879 (3) | Exposition Universelle of 1889 (2) | Salon of 1839 (2) | Salon of 1847 (2) | Salon of 1857 (2) | Salon of 1866 (2) | L'invention du passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée en Europe, 1802-1850 (2) | Salon of 1849 (2) | Salon of 1877 (2) | Salon of 1902 (2) | Salon of 1859 (2) | Salon of 1887 (2)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (4) | Penitent Magdalene (4) | art of sculpture (3) | washing (2) | Madonna and Child (2) | Pygmalion and Galatea (2) | death of Cleopatra (2) | Claude Debussy (1) | lesbian (1) | truth (1) | poverty (1) | Jerome (1) | crucifixion of Jesus (1) | Annunciation (1) | Maria Alexandrovna (1) | Fall of Constantinople (1) | Pietà (1) | Salome (1)

location of final assembly: Paris (1) | France (1) | Rome (1) | Villa Medici (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (2) | encaustic painting (1)