![]() ![]() Bathed in opalescent colors, the goddess Venus shyly looks to the viewer from beneath the crook of her elbow. A nude who could be asleep or awake is specially formidable for a male viewer." Background and description Īt the Salon of 1863, The Birth of Venus was one of a multitude of female nudes. Art historian and curator Robert Rosenblum wrote of Cabanel's The Birth of Venus that "This Venus hovers somewhere between an ancient deity and a modern dream" he described "the ambiguity of her eyes, that seem to be closed but that a close look reveals that she is awake. ![]() That same year Cabanel was made a professor of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.Ĭabanel's combination of sensual and classical imagery appealed to the higher levels of society. Shown to great success at the Paris Salon of 1863, The Birth of Venus was immediately purchased by Napoleon III for his own personal collection. A third (106 x 182.6 cm) version dates from 1875 it is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. A second and smaller version (85 x 135.9 cm) from ca. It was painted in 1863, and is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. The Birth of Venus (French: Naissance de Venus) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel. Painting by Alexandre Cabanel The Birth of Venus ![]()
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