Alexandre Cabanel
(1823 - 1889)
 

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 L'art pompier, and was Napoleon III's preferred painter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Cabanel

The Birth of Venus
1863 - 1875
Oil on Canvas
106 x 182,6 cm
Musée d'Orsay
Dahesh Museum of Art
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435831

The Birth of Venus (French: Naissance de Venus) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel. 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.