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instance of: painting (34) | statue (1) | study (1)

commissioned by: École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1) | Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: Napoleon III (2) | Eugénie de Montijo (1) | Goupil & Cie (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | John Peter Moore (1) | Samuel Putnam Avery (1) | Joseph Raphael De Lamar (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1) | George W. Lininger (1) | American Art Association (1) | Charles J. Osborn (1)

genre: nude (22) | mythological painting (11) | allegory (8) | genre art (4) | religious art (4) | history painting (3) | portrait (2) | landscape art (1) | idyll (1) | full-frontal portrait (1) | full-length portrait (1)

based on: birth of Aphrodite (2) | Book of Genesis (1) | Cupid and Psyche (1) | Metamorphoses (1) | Daphnis and Chloe (1) | Maestà (1) | The Ant and the Grasshopper (1) | Paul (1) | Virginie (1) | Madonna and Child (1) | Philomela and Procne (1) | Etude de nu féminin (1) | death of Cleopatra (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (21) | Alexandre Cabanel (5) | Jules Lefebvre (3) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (2) | Pierre Auguste Cot (1) | Jean-Paul Laurens (1) | Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1) | Albert Darcq (1) | Charles Gauthier (1)

material used: oil paint (34) | canvas (34) | plaster (1) | wax paint (1)

collection: Musée d'Orsay (10) | private collection (4) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (4) | Luxembourg Museum (2) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Museo del Prado (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Walters Art Museum (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Académie des Beaux-Arts (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | National Gallery of Victoria (1) | Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (1) | San Antonio Museum of Art (1) | Pera Museum (1) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana (1) | Salar Jung Museum (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (8) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (2) | Louvre Museum (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Palace of Fontainebleau (1) | Walters Art Museum (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Académie des Beaux-Arts (1) | Petit Palais (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | National Gallery of Victoria (1) | Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (1) | San Antonio Museum of Art (1) | Pera Museum (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1863 (2) | Salon of 1880 (2) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (1) | 1878 Paris World's Fair (1) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | Salon of 1861 (1) | Salon of 1870 (1) | Salon of 1879 (1) | Salon of 1857 (1) | Salon of 1875 (1) | Salon of 1877 (1) | From Cranach to Monet. Highlights of the Perez Simon Collection (1)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (2) | Madonna and Child (2) | lesbian (1) | truth (1) | Maestà (1) | admiration (1) | Toilet of Venus (1) | death of Cleopatra (1)

fabrication method: encaustic painting (1)

Madonna with child

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1899)
Virgin Mary woman mother Child Jesus boy

Zenobia found by Sheperds on the banks of the Araxes

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1850)
Zenobia woman herder man clothed female, naked male toplessness dress sandal bracelet necklace earring black hair long hair headband toga tunic loincloth white hair barefoot male toplessness Herding dog beard standing kneeling rural area major trauma shore Aras River sky cloud overcoat

The Pearl and the Wave

painting
by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1862)
woman nudity lying back Huequitos para Andrea buttocks intergluteal cleft smile wind wave shore sea beach foam rock long hair chestnut hair seashell conch Mussel breast Pecten maximus sand seaweed waist gaze towards the viewer

Nymphe enlevée par un faune

painting
by Alexandre Cabanel (1860)
kidnapping nymph faun satyr woman nudity blond long hair combat armpit breast umbilicus brown hair Pan flute drapery broad-leaved tree plant rural area sky laurel wreath grass flower crown herb

The Nymphaeum

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1878)
nymph woman nudity nymphaeum glabrousness sitting contrapposto lying kneeling swing body of water nude swimming Huequitos para Andrea umbilicus back long hair smile

Madonna with child and John the Baptist

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1875)
Virgin Mary woman mother Child Jesus Child Saint John boy kiss throne aureola sitting hipshot veil barefoot fur malleolus

The Wave

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1896)
woman nudity sitting nude swimming long hair red hair smile beach shore wind wave sea foam sky breaking wave cloud water breast barefoot art model sand buttocks sole gaze towards the viewer malleolus

Pandora

painting
by Alexandre Cabanel (1873)
Christina Nilsson Pandora woman chestnut hair chignon laurel wreath eyebrow blue smile lipstick shoulder see-through clothing breast nipple toplessness shirt drapery Pandora's box casket

The Virgin With Angels

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1900)
Virgin Mary woman mother Child Jesus boy angel mandorla

The Excommunication of Robert the Pious

painting
by Jean-Paul Laurens (1875)
Robert II of France Bertha of Burgundy excommunication sadness throne crown sitting bishop votive candle Romanesque architecture column archivolt Tympanum wall tapestry sceptre woman man platform

The Two Bathers

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1884)
woman nudity brown hair long hair chignon black hair lesbian sitting kneeling buttocks breast umbilicus gaze back rock sea shore sky cloud nude swimming drapery intergluteal cleft Gluteal sulcus smile glabrousness sole

The Dance

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1856)
cloud dance woman day night drapery partner dance sitting tambourine barefoot toplessness clothing blond wreath black hair headband brown hair breast back Huequitos para Andrea smile sky chiton malleolus

La Comtesse De Keller (marquise de Saint Yves d'Alveydre)

painting
by Alexandre Cabanel (1873)
bijou hairstyle woman

The Birth of Venus

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1879)
Venus dolphin sea Pecten maximus putto Eros nymph centaur conch sky nudity contrapposto woman Aphrodite long hair chestnut hair brown hair umbilicus Cupid Psyche hairstyle beard back bird's wing Huequitos para Andrea smile music Triton breast glabrousness bow arrow flight armpit areola nipple mons pubis

Philomela and Procne

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1861)
Philomela Procne woman sibling group standing laurel wreath wreath chiton brown hair blond akimbo tambourine necklace earring smile eye contact swallow None

The Storm

painting
by Pierre Auguste Cot (1880)
couple man woman running barefoot male toplessness loincloth see-through clothing umbilicus breast blond black hair trail rural area plant drapery teenager clothed male, naked female blowing horn storm thunderstorm part Chloe Daphnis wind

The abduction of Psyche

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1895)
Cupid Psyche chestnut hair long hair mountain sky couple nudity kidnapping flight bird's wing insect wing toplessness handbra breast Eros umbilicus male toplessness hug smile love drapery woman

Truth Coming Out of Her Well

painting
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1896)
truth woman nudity long hair black hair well pulley wall sett umbilicus breast Martinet anger plant rope leaf punishment bucket courtyard gaze

[no title]

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1873)
Venus Aphrodite woman nudity squatting position shore beach wind wave long hair red hair hairstyle washing umbilicus breast areola nipple armpit smile sea gaze towards the viewer

Dawn

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1881)
woman see-through clothing long hair red hair scarf nudity dance glabrousness umbilicus breast areola nipple flower Aurora twilight morning armpit smell puddle rural area specular reflection sky dawn female suiting chestnut hair body of water pond water lily

Admiration

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1897)
rural area grass tree watercourse dirt plant group of humans Eros Cupid boy child nudity contrapposto smile blond armpit gaze woman long hair chignon black hair brown hair headband toplessness eyebrow kneeling sitting shoulder breast areola nipple dimple waist umbilicus hip handbra intergluteal cleft bird's wing barefoot sole toe malleolus clothing clothing in the ancient world drapery hand bouquet flower prayer squatting position ear neck blue Earth's surface

Evening Mood

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1882)
woman flight nudity sea shore rock wind wave sky cloud phase of the moon Moon veil red hair long hair chignon breast umbilicus contrapposto evening night specular reflection drapery mood Hesperis toplessness barefoot areola nipple see-through clothing scarf waist malleolus

The Cicada

painting
by Jules Lefebvre (1872)
woman contrapposto nudity brown hair long hair part eyebrow breast nipple umbilicus glabrousness scarf dark brown drapery plant baseboard autumn leaf famine poverty gaze towards the viewer

Le Printemps

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1886)
spring woman putto Erotes Cupid sky contrapposto cloud rural area handbra Eros glabrousness umbilicus bird's wing flight lying sitting Flora buttocks Syringa vulgaris flower grass brown hair long hair arrow areola nipple Cowslip Bellis perennis Ranunculus man mons pubis

Housemaid

painting
by Jules Lefebvre (1880)
domestic worker maid woman standing wall tile azulejo dress embroidery belt veil chestnut hair long hair part diadem eyebrow black earring décolletage necklace bracelet tray decanter cup with stem fruit orange Pyrus drapery gaze towards the viewer

The First Mourning

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1888)
Adam Eve Abel cadaver mourning family man woman son male toplessness toplessness barefoot chestnut hair brown hair long hair tear sitting kneeling rock plain sky cloud umbilicus grief nudity loincloth mother father hug malleolus

Youth and Love

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1877)
woman nudity Eros Cupid putto bird's wing breast areola nipple waist umbilicus glabrousness hip chestnut hair chignon eye contact blue blond smile ear human tooth barefoot toe drapery watercourse understory tree broad-leaved tree plant Narcissus trunk malleolus youth

Greek Interior

painting / study
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1848)
group of humans woman standing sitting lying gynaeceum clothing in ancient Greece clothed male, naked female ancient Greek architecture column peristyle brown hair black hair breast umbilicus glabrousness armpit buttocks hip contrapposto intergluteal cleft entablature polychromy table Triclinium kline pillow babouche drapery door man beard white hair sky mural waist nudity mons pubis prostitution seat

Lost Pleiad

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1884)
Merope woman nudity back Huequitos para Andrea buttocks intergluteal cleft Gluteal sulcus long hair chestnut hair ponytail Merope star sky night Pleiades glabrousness umbilicus breast waist

The Birth of Venus

painting
by Alexandre Cabanel (1863)
Venus putto sea sky wind wave foam conch nudity woman Aphrodite long hair chestnut hair lying umbilicus armpit childbirth

Truth

painting
by Jules Lefebvre (1870)
woman standing contrapposto personification brown hair long hair bangs eyebrow armpit breast umbilicus hip glabrousness electric light light electrical cable stream shore night lighting plant torch truth waist nudity steatomery barefoot toe nipple watercourse leaf rural area malleolus mons pubis

Byblis

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1884)
Byblis woman nudity forest vivarium sorrow glabrousness umbilicus breast sitting rock long hair chestnut hair specular reflection plant broad-leaved tree shore waist

Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners

painting
by Alexandre Cabanel (1887)
Cleopatra woman sitting couch black hair slide breast dress flower headscarf flower leopard houseplant Cyperus papyrus diadem domestic worker toplessness hand fan sitting necklace barefoot headscarf prisoner poisoning man agony cadaver poison column ancient Egyptian architecture courtyard male toplessness Uraeus platform

Cleopatra

statue
by Charles Gauthier (1880)
Cleopatra suicide aspic viper snakebite toplessness umbilicus breast long hair barefoot handbra cushion drapery woman agony half reclining nipple malleolus pigtail

Le Travail interrompu

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1891)
Cupid woman perfume wool toga