instance of: painting / movement: academic art / collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre

commissioned by: Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: France (5) | Napoleon III (2) | John Peter Moore (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

genre: nude (3) | mythological painting (3) | allegory (2) | history painting (1)

based on: birth of Aphrodite (2) | 1814 campaign in France (1)

artist: Alexandre Cabanel (2) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (2) | Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1) | Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre (1)

depicts: woman (5) | sky (4) | armpit (3) | breast (3) | nudity (3) | long hair (3) | umbilicus (3) | brown hair (3) | sea (2) | smile (2) | man (2) | Aphrodite (2) | Venus (2) | conch (2) | back (2) | blond (2) | putto (2) | nymph (2)

material used: oil paint (6) | canvas (5) | wood (1) | wax paint (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (4) | Louvre Museum (1) | Louvre Palace (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | Nantes Museum of Arts (1) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (1)

country of origin: France (4)

exhibition history: International Exposition 1867 (2) | Salon of 1861 (1) | Salon of 1864 (1) | Salon of 1863 (1) | Salon of 1843 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1857 (1)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (2)

fabrication method: encaustic painting (1)