country of origin: France / depicts: nudity

instance of: painting (42) | sculpture (6) | study (2) | illumination (1) | panel painting (1) | statue (1)

commissioned by: Paris (1) | Louis XIV of France (1) | Caroline Bonaparte (1) | Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1)

owned by: Napoleon III (2) | Jean-Baptiste Faure (2) | Paris (1) | Louis XIV of France (1) | Gustave Courbet (1) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1) | Édouard Manet (1) | Isaac de Camondo (1) | Eugénie de Montijo (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Étienne Moreau-Nélaton (1) | Louisine Havemeyer (1) | Paul Durand-Ruel (1) | Goupil & Cie (1) | Henry Osborne Havemeyer (1) | Samuel Putnam Avery (1) | Joseph Raphael De Lamar (1) | galerie Durand-Ruel (1)

movement: academic art (26) | neoclassicism (3) | Orientalism (2) | rococo (2) | Romanticism (1) | Baroque (1) | Realism (1)

genre: nude (37) | mythological painting (19) | allegory (9) | genre art (8) | portrait (5) | landscape art (3) | figure painting (3) | full-length portrait (3) | sculptural group (2) | religious art (2) | mythological sculpture (2) | still life (1) | public art (1) | overdoor (1) | history painting (1) | idyll (1) | sculpture funéraire (1) | bust (1)

based on: Cupid and Psyche (3) | Pygmalion and Galatea (3) | Book of Genesis (2) | Metamorphoses (2) | birth of Aphrodite (2) | The Divine Comedy (1) | July Revolution (1) | Judgement of Paris (1) | The Ant and the Grasshopper (1) | Yusuf and Zulaikha (1) | Inferno (1) | Etude de nu féminin (1) | death of Cleopatra (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (18) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (4) | Jules Lefebvre (3) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (2) | Alexandre Cabanel (2) | Gustave Doré (1) | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1) | Eugène Delacroix (1) | Gustave Courbet (1) | Édouard Manet (1) | Edgar Degas (1) | François Gérard (1) | Étienne Maurice Falconet (1) | Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (1) | Pierre Paul Puget (1) | Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1) | Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1) | Jules Dalou (1)

material used: oil paint (41) | canvas (38) | marble (3) | plaster (2) | wood (1) | paper (1) | Carrara marble (1) | pastel (1) | patina (1)

collection: Musée d'Orsay (11) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (9) | private collection (5) | Luxembourg Museum (4) | Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (4) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (3) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | Birmingham Museum of Art (2) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (1) | Hiroshima Museum of Art (1) | Bodleian Library (1) | Hermitage Museum (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Rijksmuseum (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (1) | Musée Carnavalet (1) | Indianapolis Museum of Art (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (10) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (3) | Louvre Museum (2) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | Birmingham Museum of Art (2) | Versailles (1) | Hiroshima Museum of Art (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Rijksmuseum (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (1) | Musée Carnavalet (1) | Indianapolis Museum of Art (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | National Gallery of Victoria (1) | San Antonio Museum of Art (1) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (1) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana (1)

part of: Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 195 (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1831 (2) | Renoir (2) | Salon of 1863 (2) | Ghent (1) | Tokyo (1) | Strasbourg (1) | Brussels metropolitan area (1) | Musée d'Orsay (1) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Pinacoteca di Brera (1) | Alte Pinakothek (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Städel Museum (1) | Kunsthalle Hamburg (1) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (1) | Royal Academy of Arts (1) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1) | Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte (1)

main subject: Pygmalion and Galatea (3) | art of sculpture (2) | Venus Anadyomene (2) | lesbian (1) | truth (1) | washing (1) | Judgement of Paris (1) | admiration (1) | Toilet of Venus (1) | death of Cleopatra (1)

location of final assembly: Paris (2) | Cagnes-sur-Mer (2)

fabrication method: monotyping (1) | relief sculpture (1)