The Birth of Venus
1875 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions : 41 3/4 x 71 7/8 in. (106 x 182.6 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit Gift of John Wolfe, 1893
The first version of Cabanels Birth of Venus (Musée dOrsay, Paris) created a sensation at the Salon of 1863, which was dubbed the
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The Birth of Venus (1875) by Alexandre Cabanel, oil on canvas, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Alexandre Cabanel
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. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier and Napoleon III's preferred painter.
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