country of origin: France / depicts: woman

instance of: painting (95) | sculpture (11) | study (3) | pastel (2) | illumination (1) | panel painting (1) | drawing (1) | statue (1) | political cartoon (1) | monument (1) | sketch (1)

commissioned by: Louis XIV of France (2) | Paris (1) | Napoleon (1) | Caroline Bonaparte (1) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1) | Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1) | Giovanni Battista Sommariva (1) | Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1) | Thomas Gold Appleton (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: Napoleon III (2) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (2) | Gustave Caillebotte (2) | Jean-Baptiste Faure (2) | Paul Durand-Ruel (2) | Paris (1) | Toulouse (1) | Musée d'Orsay (1) | Cardinal Richelieu (1) | Gustave Courbet (1) | Édouard Manet (1) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Paul Cassirer (1) | Jacques-Louis David (1) | Isaac de Camondo (1) | Museum Folkwang (1) | Eugénie de Montijo (1)

movement: academic art (35) | neoclassicism (8) | Impressionism (6) | rococo (6) | Orientalism (5) | Realism (3) | Post-Impressionism (2) | Romanticism (1) | Baroque (1) | Naturalism (1) | Symbolism (1) | pointillism (1) | bohemianism (1) | japonism (1) | modernism (1) | Pleinairisme (1) | Egyptian Revival (1)

genre: nude (37) | portrait (26) | genre art (21) | mythological painting (20) | allegory (15) | religious art (6) | landscape art (4) | public art (4) | history painting (4) | sculptural group (3) | figure painting (3) | genre painting (2) | miniature (2) | overdoor (2) | bust (2) | full-frontal portrait (2) | full-length portrait (2) | interior view (2)

based on: Pygmalion and Galatea (4) | Book of Genesis (2) | Metamorphoses (2) | birth of Aphrodite (2) | death of Cleopatra (2) | Cupid and Psyche (1) | Dreyfus affair (1) | Daphnis and Chloe (1) | Siege of La Rochelle (1) | Maestà (1) | Judgement of Paris (1) | The Ant and the Grasshopper (1) | Yusuf and Zulaikha (1) | Paul (1) | Virginie (1) | Madonna and Child (1) | equestrian statue of Joan of Arc (1) | Philomela and Procne (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (22) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (14) | Edgar Degas (5) | Jean-François Millet (5) | Alexandre Cabanel (5) | Jules Lefebvre (3) | Vincent van Gogh (2) | Édouard Manet (2) | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (2) | Jean-Honoré Fragonard (2) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (2) | Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (2) | Jean-Baptiste Regnault (2) | Nicolas Bertin (2) | Claude Monet (1) | Gustave Doré (1) | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1) | Georges Seurat (1)

part of the series: equestrian statue of Joan of Arc (1)

material used: oil paint (91) | canvas (82) | marble (5) | wood (4) | paper (4) | bronze (3) | plaster (3) | cardboard (3) | pastel (2) | gold (1) | limestone (1) | ivory (1) | patina (1) | bisque (1) | panel (1) | canvas (1) | wax paint (1)

collection: Musée d'Orsay (23) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (20) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (9) | private collection (6) | National Gallery of Art (4) | Luxembourg Museum (4) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (3) | Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (3) | Museum of the History of France (3) | Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Hermitage Museum (2) | Rijksmuseum (2) | Van Gogh Museum (2) | Art Institute of Chicago (2) | J. Paul Getty Museum (2) | Birmingham Museum of Art (2) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2)

location: Musée d'Orsay (20) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (9) | Louvre Museum (3) | National Gallery of Art (3) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (3) | Galerie nationale du Jeu de paume (3) | Room 702 (3) | Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Hermitage Museum (2) | Rijksmuseum (2) | Van Gogh Museum (2) | Art Institute of Chicago (2) | Birmingham Museum of Art (2) | Luxembourg Museum (2) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (2) | None (2)

part of: 'La Dance' collection (1) | Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 195 (1)

exhibition history: International Exposition 1867 (3) | Renoir (3) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (2) | Salon of 1785 (2) | Salon of 1863 (2) | 8th impressionist exhibition (2) | Salon of 1879 (2) | Salon of 1857 (2) | Salon of 1819 (2) | Salon of 1880 (2) | European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | Ghent (1) | Chicago (1) | Brussels metropolitan area (1) | Musée d'Orsay (1) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Kyoto National Museum (1) | Pinacoteca di Brera (1)

main subject: Pygmalion and Galatea (4) | art of sculpture (3) | lesbian (2) | washing (2) | Venus Anadyomene (2) | Madonna and Child (2) | death of Cleopatra (2) | Joan of Arc (1) | truth (1) | art of painting (1) | coronation of Napoleon I (1) | Maestà (1) | Judgement of Paris (1) | Rape of Persephone (1) | admiration (1) | meals (1) | Susanna and the Elders (1) | Toilet of Venus (1)

donated by: Mary Clark Thompson (1) | Mary Anna Draper (1)

location of final assembly: Paris (7) | Cagnes-sur-Mer (3) | Essoyes (1) | Manufacture nationale de Sèvres (1) | Chailly-en-Bière (1)

published in: European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2)

fabrication method: monotyping (1) | oil painting (1) | relief sculpture (1) | encaustic painting (1)