country of origin: France / depicts: woman / genre: nude

instance of: painting (35) | statue (1) | sculpture (1) | study (1)

commissioned by: Louis XIV of France (1) | Caroline Bonaparte (1) | Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1) | Giovanni Battista Sommariva (1) | Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1)

owned by: Napoleon III (2) | Jean-Baptiste Faure (2) | 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) | Joslyn Art Museum (1) | Henry Osborne Havemeyer (1) | Samuel Putnam Avery (1) | Joseph Raphael De Lamar (1) | galerie Durand-Ruel (1)

movement: academic art (22) | neoclassicism (4) | rococo (3) | Orientalism (2) | Realism (1) | Egyptian Revival (1)

based on: Pygmalion and Galatea (3) | Book of Genesis (2) | Metamorphoses (2) | birth of Aphrodite (2) | Daphnis and Chloe (1) | Judgement of Paris (1) | The Ant and the Grasshopper (1) | Yusuf and Zulaikha (1) | Paul (1) | Virginie (1) | Susanna and the Elders (1) | Etude de nu féminin (1) | death of Cleopatra (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (13) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (3) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (2) | Alexandre Cabanel (2) | Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (2) | Jules Lefebvre (2) | Nicolas Bertin (2) | Gustave Doré (1) | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1) | Gustave Courbet (1) | Édouard Manet (1) | Edgar Degas (1) | Pierre Auguste Cot (1) | Étienne Maurice Falconet (1) | Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1) | Joseph-Marie Vien (1) | Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1) | Albert Darcq (1)

material used: oil paint (34) | canvas (32) | wood (2) | paper (1) | marble (1) | pastel (1) | plaster (1)

collection: Musée d'Orsay (9) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (7) | Luxembourg Museum (3) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | Rijksmuseum (2) | private collection (2) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Hiroshima Museum of Art (1) | Hermitage Museum (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Joslyn Art 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)

location: Musée d'Orsay (8) | Louvre Museum (2) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | Rijksmuseum (2) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (2) | Room 702 (2) | Hiroshima Museum of Art (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Joslyn Art Museum (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)

exhibition history: Salon of 1863 (2) | Salon of 1819 (2) | Salon of 1880 (2) | Ghent (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) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (1) | Brooklyn Museum (1)

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

location of final assembly: Paris (2) | Cagnes-sur-Mer (1)

fabrication method: monotyping (1)