country of origin: France / depicts: breast / material used: canvas / instance of: painting

commissioned by: Louis XIV of France (1) | Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1) | Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: Napoleon III (1) | Louis XIV of France (1) | Gustave Courbet (1) | Eugénie de Montijo (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Jean-Baptiste Faure (1) | Louisine Havemeyer (1) | Paul Durand-Ruel (1) | Goupil & Cie (1) | John Peter Moore (1) | Henry Osborne Havemeyer (1) | Samuel Putnam Avery (1) | Joseph Raphael De Lamar (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1) | American Art Association (1) | Charles J. Osborn (1)

movement: academic art (22) | neoclassicism (3) | Orientalism (2) | Realism (1)

genre: nude (23) | mythological painting (12) | allegory (7) | genre art (4) | portrait (3) | landscape art (1) | overdoor (1) | history painting (1) | full-frontal portrait (1) | full-length portrait (1)

based on: Cupid and Psyche (2) | Metamorphoses (2) | Daphnis and Chloe (1) | The Ant and the Grasshopper (1) | Paul (1) | Virginie (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | birth of Aphrodite (1) | Etude de nu féminin (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (12) | Alexandre Cabanel (3) | Jules Lefebvre (3) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (2) | Gustave Doré (1) | Gustave Courbet (1) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1) | François Gérard (1) | Pierre Auguste Cot (1) | Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1) | Joseph-Marie Vien (1) | Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1)

collection: Musée d'Orsay (7) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (5) | private collection (3) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Museo del Prado (1) | Walters Art Museum (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | National Gallery of Victoria (1) | Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (1) | San Antonio Museum of Art (1) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana (1) | Salar Jung Museum (1) | Musée Anne de Beaujeu (1) | Musée de Cahors Henri-Martin (1) | Museum of the History of France (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (6) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2) | Louvre Museum (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Walters Art Museum (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Luxembourg Museum (1) | National Gallery of Victoria (1) | Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (1) | San Antonio Museum of Art (1) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana (1) | Nantes Museum of Arts (1) | Salar Jung Museum (1) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (1) | Musée Anne de Beaujeu (1) | Musée de Cahors Henri-Martin (1)

exhibition history: 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) | Haus der Kunst (1) | Wallraf–Richartz Museum (1) | Nationalmuseum (1)

main subject: lesbian (1) | truth (1) | art of sculpture (1) | washing (1) | Venus Anadyomene (1) | admiration (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | Toilet of Venus (1)

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

fabrication method: encaustic painting (1)