The Birth of Venus
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
41 3/4 x 71 7/8 in. (106 x 182.6 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of John Wolfe, 1893
Accession Number
94.24.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Female NudesPuttiSeasVenus
About the Artist
Alexandre Cabanel · 1823–1889
Alexandre Cabanel was a leading French academic painter born on September 28, 1823, in Montpellier. The son of a carpenter, he displayed artistic talent early and began formal training at age eleven at the local École des Beaux-Arts under Charles François Matet. In 1839 he received a municipal scholarship that enabled him to move to Paris, where he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1840 and ...