instance of: painting / genre: mythological painting

commissioned by: Philip IV of Spain (6) | Isabella d'Este (3) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Philip II of Spain (2) | Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (2) | Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (2) | Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (2) | Cassiano dal Pozzo (2) | Louis XV of France (1) | Charles V (1) | Joachim Murat (1) | Clement IX (1) | Agostino Chigi (1) | Constantijn Huygens (1) | Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1) | Vincenzo Giustiniani (1) | Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1) | Alfonso d'Este, Lord of Montecchio (1)

owned by: Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (20) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (12) | France (10) | Arthur Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore (6) | Louis XIV of France (4) | Birmingham Museum of Art (4) | Bartolomeo della Nave (4) | Christina of Sweden (3) | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (3) | Dallas Museum of Art (3) | Herbert Cook (3) | Antoine Poullain (3) | Napoleon III (2) | Louis XV of France (2) | Philip II of Spain (2) | Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (2) | Cardinal Mazarin (2) | Philip IV of Spain (2)

movement: Venetian school (40) | academic art (38) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (34) | neoclassicism (29) | High Renaissance (23) | mannerism (16) | rococo (14) | Baroque (13) | Dutch Golden Age painting (12) | Symbolism (11) | classicism (11) | Early Renaissance (8) | Renaissance (4) | Baroque painting (4) | Italian Renaissance (3) | German Renaissance (3) | Art Nouveau (2) | School of Fontainebleau (2)

named after: Royal Palace of El Pardo (1) | Tu Marcellus eris (1)

based on: Greek mythology (49) | Metamorphoses (48) | Rape of Europa (15) | Judgement of Paris (12) | birth of Aphrodite (8) | Iliad (6) | Cupid and Psyche (6) | Venus and Adonis (6) | Odyssey (4) | Pygmalion and Galatea (4) | Old Testament (3) | Leda and the Swan (3) | Milky Way (2) | None (2) | Susanna and the Elders (2) | death of Cleopatra (2) | Jupiter (1) | Ovid (1)

artist: Peter Paul Rubens (74) | anonymous (51) | Titian (39) | John William Waterhouse (31) | Nicolas Poussin (26) | Gustave Moreau (21) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (20) | Jacob Jordaens (18) | François Boucher (17) | Jacek Malczewski (16) | Lucas Cranach the Elder (15) | Johann Heinrich Tischbein (15) | Paolo Veronese (13) | Edward Burne-Jones (13) | Pompeo Batoni (13) | Rembrandt (11) | Jacques-Louis David (11) | David Teniers the Younger (11)

part of the series: Isle of the Dead (5) | The Judgment of Paris (5) | Danaë (4) | Medusa (1)

depicts: woman (333) | nudity (204) | Venus (151) | Cupid (142) | man (134) | sky (120) | umbilicus (106) | breast (94) | long hair (92) | cloud (87) | putto (79) | sitting (71) | blond (69) | Aphrodite (68) | rural area (65) | Eros (62) | drapery (62) | tree (58)

material used: oil paint (1,092) | canvas (719) | wood (122) | panel (64) | tempera (28) | copper (23) | canvas (22) | fresco (10) | oak (9) | cardboard (7) | paint (5) | paper (4) | lime (4) | poplar wood (3) | gold (2) | gouache paint (2) | plaster (2) | beech wood (2)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (120) | private collection (84) | National Museum in Warsaw (77) | Statens Museum for Kunst (66) | Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel (46) | Museo del Prado (42) | National Gallery (34) | Rijksmuseum (33) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (30) | Musée d'Orsay (29) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (26) | Hermitage Museum (25) | Mauritshuis (24) | Uffizi Gallery (24) | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (18) | Museum of the History of France (15) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (14) | National Gallery of Art (12)

location: Statens Museum for Kunst (66) | museum's storage space (46) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (45) | Museo del Prado (41) | Rijksmuseum (32) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (29) | National Museum in Warsaw (27) | National Gallery (26) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (26) | Musée d'Orsay (25) | Hermitage Museum (23) | Mauritshuis (22) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (17) | private collection (16) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (13) | Gemäldegalerie (12) | National Gallery of Art (12) | Musée Gustave-Moreau (12)

part of: Nine scenes from Heliodorus' Aethiopica (8) | Sistine Chapel ceiling (4) | Prophets and Sibyls (4) | Isabella d'Este Studiolo (3) | The Sacrifice of Polyxena (3) | Isle of the Dead (2) | Black Paintings (2) | Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne (2) | The Loves of the Gods (2) | The Great Red Dragon Paintings (1) | Beethoven Frieze (1) | The History of the True Cross (1) | The Myth of Prometheus (1) | Jupiter and Antiope (1) | Punishment of a Hunter (1) | Satyr and the Peasants series (1)

country of origin: France (37) | Italy (26) | Spain (13) | United States of America (6) | Switzerland (5) | Finland (1) | Netherlands (1) | United Kingdom (1) | Rome (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1866 (4) | International Exposition 1867 (3) | Salon of 1863 (3) | Salon of 1814 (3) | Europeana 280 (3) | Velázquez (3) | Corot 1796-1875 (3) | Mirabilis (3) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (2) | Salon of 1861 (2) | Salon of 1869 (2) | Salon of 1872 (2) | Salon of 1891 (2) | Corps et Ombres (2) | The Moon: From real travel to imaginary journeys (2) | Exposition Universelle of 1889 (1) | Exposition Universelle of 1855 (1) | La Galerie du temps (1)

main subject: Judgement of Paris (18) | Rape of Europa (17) | Venus Anadyomene (13) | Leda and the Swan (12) | Diana and Callisto (6) | Toilet of Venus (6) | death (5) | Sacrifice of Iphigenia (5) | art of sculpture (4) | Pygmalion and Galatea (4) | Diana bathing (4) | suicide of Lucretia (4) | Candaulism (3) | Diana and Actaeon (3) | Perseus and Andromeda (3) | Charites (2) | Rape of Persephone (2) | Orpheus and Eurydice (2)

donated by: Marquess of Hertford (1)

location of final assembly: France (6) | Rome (3) | Mantua (3) | Italy (2) | Brussels metropolitan area (2) | London (1) | Germany (1) | Venice (1) | India (1) | Vienna (1) | Florence (1) | Meissen (1) | Antwerp (1) | Vehmersalmi (1)

published in: Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Europe, a Prophecy (1) | Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art (1) | Artemisia Gentileschi: 68 Paintings (1) | The Art of Understanding Art: A Behind the Scenes Story (1) | Artemisia Gentileschi: 52 Masterpieces (1)

fabrication method: chiaroscuro (7) | fresco painting (4) | oil painting (3) | grisaille (2)