country of origin: France

instance of: print (345) | painting (297) | sculpture (21) | drawing (6) | comic book album (6) | comic book series (6) | photograph (4) | statue (4) | study (3) | pastel (3) | comic (2) | monumental sculpture (2) | illumination (1) | film (1) | corbel (1) | magazine (1) | panel painting (1) | comics anthology (1)

commissioned by: Paris (2) | Napoleon (2) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Salon of 1881 (2) | Caroline Bonaparte (1) | Jean-Baptiste Colbert (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) | Paris (2) | 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) | Claude Monet (1) | Argentina (1) | New York (1)

movement: academic art (80) | Impressionism (21) | neoclassicism (10) | rococo (10) | Orientalism (6) | Post-Impressionism (6) | classicism (4) | Baroque (3) | Barbizon school (3) | pointillism (3) | Realism (3) | Romanticism (2) | Naturalism (2) | Symbolism (2) | medieval art (2) | Salon Cubism (2) | fauvism (1) | bohemianism (1)

genre: landscape art (174) | genre painting (117) | portrait (61) | nude (53) | genre art (52) | mythological painting (39) | watercolor paint (33) | history painting (30) | allegory (24) | religious art (17) | public art (9) | idyll (9) | cityscape (7) | marine art (6) | self-portrait (6) | still life (5) | figure painting (5) | floral painting (5)

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

based on: Pygmalion and Galatea (4) | Cupid and Psyche (3) | Book of Genesis (2) | Metamorphoses (2) | The Winnower (2) | birth of Aphrodite (2) | death of Cleopatra (2) | Don Quixote (1) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Commentarii de Bello Gallico (1) | Dreyfus affair (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)

artist: Jean-Baptiste Debret (207) | Thierry Frères (137) | Firmin-Didot Frères (61) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (59) | Johann Moritz Rugendas (47) | Engelmann & Cie (44) | Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (34) | Lemercier & Cie (34) | Imprimerie de Cosson (34) | Pauline de Portes (34) | Paul Cézanne (32) | Charles Etienne Pierre Motte (32) | Jean-Victor Frond (22) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (19) | Victor Adam (16) | Vincent van Gogh (14) | Jean-François Millet (14) | Isidore Laurent Deroy (10)

part of the series: Asterix (5) | Baigneuses (Bathers) (2) | Rouen Cathedral Series (1) | The Adventures of Tintin (1) | Mont Sainte-Victoire (1) | Le Moulin de la Galette (1) | equestrian statue of Joan of Arc (1) | The Card Players (1)

depicts: landscape (137) | Figura humana (118) | woman (111) | scientific illustration (102) | ethnography (74) | natural landscape (69) | man (65) | long hair (53) | urban landscape (53) | nudity (50) | sky (49) | slavery (47) | sitting (46) | standing (41) | Rio de Janeiro (40) | work (40) | botany (36) | breast (36)

material used: oil paint (284) | paper (281) | canvas (247) | canvas (18) | wood (8) | bronze (7) | marble (6) | ivory (6) | burin (6) | graphite (5) | pastel (5) | cardboard (4) | pencil (3) | plaster (3) | tempera (2) | panel (2) | colored pencil (2) | watercolor paint (2)

collection: Brasiliana Iconográfica (348) | Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo collection (214) | Fundação Estudar collection (214) | Brasiliana Itaú Collection (112) | Musée d'Orsay (47) | private collection (38) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (38) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (19) | IMS Prints and Drawings Collection (17) | Museo del Prado (13) | National Gallery of Art (9) | Museum of the History of France (7) | Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (6) | Art Institute of Chicago (5) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (5) | Luxembourg Museum (5) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (5) | Musée national d'art moderne (5)

location: Musée d'Orsay (41) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (17) | 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) | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (5) | Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (4) | Museum of Fine Arts (4) | Museum of Modern Art (4) | Galerie des Batailles (4) | Museo Soumaya (4) | New York City (3) | Centre Georges Pompidou (3) | Rijksmuseum (3) | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (3)

part of: Álbum: Voyage Pittoresque dans le Brésil (148) | None (61) | None (34) | Malerische Reise in Brasilien (24) | None (18) | album (16) | Viagem pitoresca através do Brasil (11) | Histoire de la Mission des Peres Capucins en l'Isle de Maragnan et terres circonvisines ou est traicte des singularitez admirables e desmeurs merveilluses des Indiens habitans de ce pais Avec les missines et advis qui ont este envoyez de novveau (6) | Voyage Autour du Monde (4) | 'La Dance' collection (1) | The Card Players (1) | Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 195 (1)

exhibition history: Le Cubisme (4) | International Exposition 1867 (3) | Renoir (3) | European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (3) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (2) | Salon des Indépendants (2) | Salon of 1831 (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 1880 (2)

main subject: Pygmalion and Galatea (4) | flower (3) | art of sculpture (3) | Madonna and Child (3) | woman (2) | lesbian (2) | machine (2) | washing (2) | Venus Anadyomene (2) | death of Cleopatra (2) | city (1) | Joan of Arc (1) | truth (1) | mythology (1) | poverty (1) | art of painting (1) | Paul Cézanne (1) | Paul Gauguin (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 (21) | Cagnes-sur-Mer (3) | Cannes (1) | Arles (1) | Saint-Briac-sur-Mer (1) | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1) | Pont-Aven (1) | Clohars-Carnoët (1) | Essoyes (1) | Manufacture nationale de Sèvres (1) | Chailly-en-Bière (1) | Saint-Loup-de-Varennes (1) | rue Denfert-Rochereau (1)

published in: European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | Spirou (1) | 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: lithography (232) | chromolithography (64) | etching (38) | watercolor (35) | woodcut technique (6) | oil painting (5) | intaglio printing (4) | relief sculpture (2) | monotyping (1) | encaustic painting (1)