Venus Anadyomene (Ingres)

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The Venus Anadyomene by Ingres at the Musée Condé

Venus Anadyomene is a painting by the French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. It is now held at the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. It is a female nude of the Venus Anadyomene type, showing the goddess Venus rising from the sea.

History

Ingres began the painting in 1808 during his stay in Rome at the

The Birth of Venus – Ingres visited Florence and the Uffizi in 1805 and could have seen the painting there. A drawing of 1806 then shows the goddess with her arms in the air and her hair in her hands, a pose the artist also used in his 1856 The Source
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The painting remained in the planning stages until 1848, when he completed it as a commission from the banker and botanist

Louvre Museum. It was exhibited at the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris, where it was seen by the poet Charles Baudelaire. Baudelaire argued that the head was inspired by classical sculpture, the hands by Raphael, and the narrow torso by medieval sculpture.[a]

In 1879 this painting and the rest of the Reiset collection were bought by

References

  1. ^ "La tête est inspirée des modèles antiques, les mains de Raphaël et le torse étroit de la statuaire médiévale."