The Birth of Venus
Alexandre Cabanel · 1863
Alexandre Cabanel
French · 1823–1889
Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. He was Napoleon III's preferred painter and, with Gérôme and Meissonier, was one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire."
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The Birth of Venus
Alexandre Cabanel · 1863
Musée d'Orsay
Aglaida and Boniface
Alexandre Cabanel
The Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Birth of Venus
Alexandre Cabanel · 1863
Musée d'Orsay
The Birth of Venus is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel. It was painted in 1863, and is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. A second and smaller version (85 x 135.9 cm) from c. 1864 is in the Dahesh Museum of Art.
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