The Birth of Venus (French: Naissance de Venus) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889). 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 ca. 1864 is in Dahesh Museum of Art. A third (106 x 182.6 cm)version dates from 1875; it is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
The picture is not only of a grace of composition, but in its soft, delicate color and tender. The figure has been painted in emphasizing her beauty and idealizing her form through the light blending and shading of the sfumato technique that the artist used and painted pale, placid skin tone, and darkly outlined the figure of Venus. The lightest of color used meaning of relaxation, amplifying the reclining nude’s placid demeanor and virginity.
Venus’ supine pose expresses passivity and sexual submission. Her breasts are fully exposed and her arms are away from the body as not to block its view but pulled back too obscuring her face, her pelvis is tilted toward the viewer as to display herself for viewing, her knees are slightly instead of using her hand to cover. These examples have been used to enhance the experience of the piece for the male viewer.
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