country of origin: France / instance of: painting

commissioned by: Napoleon (2) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Salon of 1881 (2) | Paris (1) | Caroline Bonaparte (1) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1) | Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1) | Giovanni Battista Sommariva (1) | Paul Fréart de Chantelou (1) | Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1) | Thomas Gold Appleton (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: Paul Durand-Ruel (4) | Jean-Baptiste Faure (3) | Ambroise Vollard (3) | Napoleon III (2) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (2) | Édouard Manet (2) | Paul Cassirer (2) | Isaac de Camondo (2) | Étienne Moreau-Nélaton (2) | Gustave Caillebotte (2) | Paul Gachet (2) | Eugène Secrétan (2) | Paul-Louis Gachet (2) | Paris (1) | Claude Monet (1) | Argentina (1) | New York (1)

movement: academic art (79) | Impressionism (20) | neoclassicism (10) | rococo (9) | Orientalism (6) | Post-Impressionism (6) | classicism (4) | Barbizon school (3) | pointillism (3) | Realism (3) | Romanticism (2) | Baroque (2) | Naturalism (2) | Symbolism (2) | Salon Cubism (2) | fauvism (1) | bohemianism (1) | Pont-Aven School (1)

genre: portrait (60) | genre art (52) | nude (49) | landscape art (45) | mythological painting (37) | allegory (21) | religious art (17) | history painting (11) | idyll (9) | cityscape (7) | self-portrait (6) | still life (5) | figure painting (5) | floral painting (5) | marine art (4) | miniature (4) | battle painting (4) | equestrian portrait (4)

named after: spring (1) | The Blue Bird (1)

based on: Cupid and Psyche (3) | Book of Genesis (2) | Metamorphoses (2) | The Winnower (2) | Pygmalion and Galatea (2) | birth of Aphrodite (2) | Don Quixote (1) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Commentarii de Bello Gallico (1) | July Revolution (1) | Daphnis and Chloe (1) | Siege of La Rochelle (1) | Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole (1) | Maestà (1) | Judgement of Paris (1) | The Ant and the Grasshopper (1) | La Mort et le Bûcheron (1) | Yusuf and Zulaikha (1)

artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (59) | Paul Cézanne (32) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (18) | Vincent van Gogh (14) | Jean-François Millet (14) | Claude Monet (8) | Alexandre Cabanel (7) | Édouard Manet (6) | Nicolas Poussin (5) | Claude Lorrain (5) | Georges Seurat (4) | Henri Rousseau (4) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (4) | Jules Lefebvre (4) | Charles-Philippe Larivière (4) | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (3) | Eugène Delacroix (3) | Edgar Degas (3)

part of the series: Baigneuses (Bathers) (2) | Rouen Cathedral Series (1) | Mont Sainte-Victoire (1) | Le Moulin de la Galette (1) | The Card Players (1)

depicts: woman (95) | man (56) | sky (48) | long hair (45) | nudity (42) | sitting (40) | standing (35) | umbilicus (32) | breast (30) | drapery (29) | tree (28) | cloud (27) | blond (27) | brown hair (27) | barefoot (25) | girl (24) | dress (24) | rural area (23)

material used: oil paint (284) | canvas (246) | canvas (18) | wood (8) | paper (4) | cardboard (4) | ivory (3) | tempera (2) | panel (2) | watercolor paint (2) | pencil (1) | varnish (1) | pastel (1) | parchment (1) | hessian (1) | gold leaf (1) | linen (1) | wax paint (1)

collection: Musée d'Orsay (44) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (38) | private collection (37) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (16) | Museo del Prado (13) | National Gallery of Art (9) | Museum of the History of France (7) | Art Institute of Chicago (5) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (5) | Luxembourg Museum (5) | Musée national d'art moderne (5) | Museum of Fine Arts (4) | Museum of Modern Art (4) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (4) | Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (3) | Rijksmuseum (3) | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (3) | Walters Art Museum (3)

location: Musée d'Orsay (38) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (15) | Museo del Prado (13) | National Gallery of Art (8) | Louvre Museum (7) | Art Institute of Chicago (5) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (5) | Galerie nationale du Jeu de paume (5) | Museum of Fine Arts (4) | Museum of Modern Art (4) | Galerie des Batailles (4) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (4) | Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (3) | Centre Georges Pompidou (3) | Rijksmuseum (3) | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (3) | Walters Art Museum (3) | Van Gogh Museum (3)

part of: 'La Dance' collection (1) | The Card Players (1)

exhibition history: International Exposition 1867 (3) | Renoir (3) | European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (3) | Le Cubisme (3) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (2) | Salon des Indépendants (2) | Salon of 1864 (2) | Salon of 1785 (2) | Salon of 1863 (2) | Salon of 1839 (2) | 1st impressionist exhibition (2) | 8th impressionist exhibition (2) | Salon of 1870 (2) | Salon of 1879 (2) | Salon of 1857 (2) | Salon of 1819 (2) | Salon of 1875 (2) | Salon of 1877 (2)

main subject: flower (3) | Madonna and Child (3) | woman (2) | lesbian (2) | machine (2) | art of sculpture (2) | washing (2) | Venus Anadyomene (2) | Pygmalion and Galatea (2) | city (1) | truth (1) | mythology (1) | poverty (1) | art of painting (1) | Paul Cézanne (1) | Paul Gauguin (1) | building (1) | Montmartre (1)

donated by: House of Talleyrand-Périgord (1) | Audrey Emery (1) | Robert Lehman (1) | Helen Hay Whitney (1) | John J. Emery (1) | Mary Clark Thompson (1) | Saidie May (1) | Mary Anna Draper (1) | Mrs. Louis V. Bell (1) | Mrs. A.D. Williams (1)

location of final assembly: Paris (19) | Cagnes-sur-Mer (3) | Cannes (1) | Arles (1) | Saint-Briac-sur-Mer (1) | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1) | Pont-Aven (1) | Essoyes (1) | Chailly-en-Bière (1) | rue Denfert-Rochereau (1)

published in: European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (1) | A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 4, Illuminations (1) | Man and the Horse: An Illustrated History of Equestrian Apparel (1) | Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (5) | watercolor (1) | monotyping (1) | encaustic painting (1)