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instance of: painting (477) | sculpture (40) | statue (32) | drawing (21) | mural (10) | fresco (8) | print (6) | triptych (5) | relief sculpture (4) | copper engraving (4) | tondo (3) | etching (3) | woodcut print (3) | personification (2) | study (2) | sketch (2) | statuette (2) | grave (1)

commissioned by: Tribunale della Mercanzia (7) | Isabella d'Este (6) | Paris (1) | France (1) | Napoleon (1) | Louis XV of France (1) | Louis XIV of France (1) | Francesco Maria del Monte (1) | Tuileries Palace (1) | Paolo Giovio (1) | Halil Şerif Paşa (1) | Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1) | Ferdinand Gonzaga (1) | Comité grec de Paris (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: France (5) | Kunsthalle Bern (3) | Antoine Poullain (3) | Louis XV of France (2) | Louis XIV of France (2) | municipality (2) | Louvre Museum (2) | Birmingham Museum of Art (2) | Samuel H. Kress Collection (2) | private (2) | Switzerland (1) | Paris (1) | Argentina (1) | Padua (1) | Palace of Versailles (1) | Gustave Doré (1) | canton of Bern (1) | Cardinal Richelieu (1)

movement: academic art (22) | German Renaissance (10) | Early Renaissance (9) | Symbolism (8) | Flemish Primitives (8) | Venetian school (6) | neoclassicism (5) | Art Nouveau (5) | Romanticism (5) | mannerism (5) | Baroque (4) | Proto-Renaissance (4) | High Renaissance (4) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (3) | Baroque painting (3) | Romanesque art (2) | Vienna Secession (2) | Dutch Golden Age painting (2)

based on: Penitent Magdalene (2) | Greek mythology (1) | Third Siege of Missolonghi (1) | Siege of La Rochelle (1) | Know thyself (1) | La Mort et le Bûcheron (1) | Vénus Anadyomène (1) | Comus (1) | Hearing (1) | None (1) | Melancholia (1) | Le Génie de la Liberté (1) | Magdalene in Meditation (1) | buste of Charles Garnier (1) | Marie Adelaide of France as Diana (1) | Wiara, Nadzieja, Miłość (1) | The Kiss of the Muse (1)

artist: Peter Paul Rubens (24) | anonymous (15) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (14) | Albrecht Dürer (11) | Jacek Malczewski (10) | Paul Cézanne (9) | Hans von Aachen (8) | Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin (8) | Jan Brueghel the Elder (8) | Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (7) | Francisco Goya (6) | Titian (6) | Charles Le Brun (6) | Pompeo Batoni (6) | Piero del Pollaiolo (6) | Giotto di Bondone (5) | Paolo Veronese (5) | Charles Meynier (5)

part of the series: Marie de' Medici cycle (5) | The Four Seasons (4) | The Voyage of Life (3) | The Allegory of Love (1)

depicts: woman (260) | nudity (86) | man (72) | sitting (59) | putto (53) | breast (41) | cloud (39) | long hair (38) | tree (33) | umbilicus (33) | sky (32) | flower (31) | child (29) | drapery (29) | horse (28) | barefoot (27) | book (24) | crown (24)

material used: oil paint (429) | canvas (334) | wood (43) | panel (25) | paper (24) | marble (22) | tempera (20) | bronze (19) | ink (13) | fresco (9) | stone (8) | plaster (8) | gold (7) | paint (6) | limestone (5) | cast iron (5) | canvas (5) | copper (4)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (127) | National Museum in Warsaw (49) | Musée d'Orsay (48) | Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (18) | Museum of the History of France (18) | private collection (17) | Museo del Prado (12) | Musée des Augustins (12) | Uffizi Gallery (11) | Museu Histórico Nacional collection (9) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (8) | National Gallery of Art (8) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (8) | Condé Museum (7) | town hall of Paris 10th arrondissement (7) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (6) | Musée de Cahors Henri-Martin (6) | Collection of paintings of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (6)

location: Musée d'Orsay (44) | museum's storage space (29) | National Museum in Warsaw (18) | Room 801 (15) | Museo del Prado (12) | in Painting's depot of the Musée du Louvre or in temporary movement (10) | National Historical Museum (9) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (8) | Louvre Palace (8) | town hall of Paris 10th arrondissement (7) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (7) | National Gallery of Art (6) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (6) | Condé Museum (6) | Galerie d'Apollon (6) | Musée de Cahors Henri-Martin (6) | Uffizi Gallery (6) | Room 225 (6)

part of: Category:Public art in Bern (5) | The Four Seasons (4) | Marie de' Medici cycle (4) | Monument to the Republic (4) | Kunsthalle Bern (3) | Isabella d'Este Studiolo (3) | The Five Senses in Five Paintings (3) | Three Ladies of Barajas (3) | The Five Senses in Two Paintings (2) | médaillons de la salle Percier et Fontaine au palais du Louvre (2) | Meisterstiche (2) | The Pilgrimage of Life Triptych (2) | Former Diptych, split and held in two museums (2) | Ship of Fools (1) | Beethoven Frieze (1) | Bremgarten cemetery (1) | An Allegory of Intemperance (1) | State archives of the canton of Berne (1)

country of origin: France (24) | Italy (7) | United States of America (6) | Spain (3)

exhibition history: Salon of 1833 (9) | Salon of 1827 (6) | Europeana 280 (4) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (2) | Exposition Universelle of 1889 (2) | Salon of 1831 (2) | Salon of 1808 (2) | Salon of 1789 (2) | Salon of 1822 (2) | Salon of 1857 (2) | Jheronimus Bosch - Visions of genius (2) | Salon of 1783 (2) | San Francisco (1) | Warsaw (1) | Budapest (1) | Verona (1) | Madrid (1) | Strasbourg (1)

main subject: liberty (2) | truth (2) | charity (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | Africa (1) | Asia (1) | love (1) | music (1) | Louis XIV of France (1) | industry (1) | family (1) | agriculture (1) | art of painting (1) | Île-de-France (1) | Rotterdam (1) | rape (1) | taste (1) | hearing (1)

donated by: Josep Sala i Ardiz (1) | Mr. and Mrs. Elton F. MacDonald (1)

location of final assembly: France (4) | Rio de Janeiro (4) | Mantua (3) | Italy (2) | Brazil (2) | Florence (2) | São Paulo (1) | Germany (1) | Bordeaux (1) | Vienna (1) | 1640s (1) | National Council of Switzerland (1) | Scrovegni Chapel (1)

published in: European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (1) | The Unicorn Tapestries (1) | From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1)

fabrication method: fresco painting (8) | wash (7) | ink wash painting (6) | sculpture in the round (4) | oil painting (3) | relief sculpture (3) | etching (2) | chalcography (2) | bas-relief (2) | encaustic painting (1) | aquatint (1) | drypoint technique (1) | gilding (1) | quill (1) | haut-relief technique (1)

The Birth of Minerva

painting
by René-Antoine Houasse (17th century)
shield helmet Diana deity javelin Jupiter Mercury Minerva birth cloud parliament sleep Vulcan

La Guerre

painting
by Henri Rousseau (1894)
cadaver horse raven sword woman broad-leaved tree cloud torch

La Gloire tirant Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle Adam de son sommeil éternel

sculpture / study
by Frédéric Brou (1906)
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam man Van Dyke beard cadaver coffin shroud woman standing nudity chignon back Huequitos para Andrea buttocks intergluteal cleft Gluteal sulcus breast laurel wreath None plank resurrection drapery

Luigi Cherubini's tomb

grave / sculpture
by Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (1846)
Luigi Cherubini personification laurel wreath man

Allegorie op religieuze verdeeldheid, spotschilderij met wagen waaraan aan twee kanten door paarden wordt getrokken

painting
by anonymous (17th century)
wagon cleric horse

Summer

painting
by Mario Nuzzi (1659)
L'estate

Nemesis

copper engraving
by Albrecht Dürer (1502)
Nemesis

The Reign of Comus

painting
by Lorenzo Costa (1511)
Anteros Arion Bacchus hill Cupid broad-leaved tree string instrument İznik Janus lyre Mercury plain Venus

The Patrician's Dream

painting
by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1665)
Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore Virgin Mary married couple sleep dream snow Jesus Christ dog

Apollo and Hermes

painting
by Francesco Albani (1635)
Apollo Hermes sky broad-leaved tree Mercury Pegasus meeting cow

Alegoría de la Fortuna y la Virtud

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (17th century)

Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto

painting
by Paolo Veronese (1571)
Battle of Lepanto

Fame of Arts

sculpture
by Emmanuel Frémiet
None winged horse natural trumpet

Glorificação de Anchieta

painting
by Lucílio de Albuquerque (1908)
Catholicism Christian Church Indigenous peoples in Brazil Society of Jesus Joseph of Anchieta São Paulo

Peace

painting
by Jacques Dumont le Romain (1749)
olive branch crown woman laurel wreath

[no title]

fresco
by Eugène Delacroix (1838s)
Attila

Allégorie du Toucher ou du feu ?

painting
by Jan Brueghel the Younger (17th century)

Double wreath surrounding a medaillion with the triumph of love

painting
by Domenichino (1626s)
pigeon Cupid flower putto

La bellesa

sculpture
by Josep Llimona i Bruguera (1924)
woman

centaur chiron

sculpture
by Etienne Perincioli (1918)
Chiron

Louis XIII

painting
by Simon Vouet (18th century)
Louis XIII of France woman personification personification drapery laurel wreath standing body armor Order of the Holy Spirit kneeling man

Le Toucher

painting / mural
by Julien Thibaudeau (1907)
nudity woman water lily aquatic plant spring sitting grass hip brown hair chestnut hair chignon breast Hedera putto flower tree sky cloud mountain watercourse drapery Huequitos para Andrea group of humans rural area barefoot umbilicus

Winter

painting
by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1575)
tree mouth mushroom head hair lemon sword flower garland Hedera winter man root trunk

The Inspiration of the Poet

painting
by Nicolas Poussin (1629)
putto laurel wreath lyre Iliad Odyssey Aeneid Mount Parnassus tree quill Virgil Calliope sky poet Apollo Citharoedus woman

Justice

painting
by Biagio d'Antonio (1490)

La musique - Portrait de M. de la Bretèche

painting
by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1769)
allegory

Rêve de printemps

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1901)
spring dream girl sitting black hair headband long hair barefoot chiton Flora putto flight arrow Cupid Eros blond Erotes bird's wing wreath umbilicus nudity flower rose forest tree understory grass arches of the foot malleolus

Sea Harbor, Fog Effect

painting
by Claude Lorrain (1646)
light source contre-jour port fortification portico sailing ship mist Ascanius dog Aeneas Achates tower column group of humans

Justice

painting
by Piero del Pollaiolo (1470)
woman sitting sandal justice gladius dress throne

Study and Genius unveil ancient Egypt to Greece

painting
by François-Édouard Picot (1827)
Egypt Greece cloud putto meeting

Painting Breathes Life into Sculpture

painting
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1893)
art of sculpture art of painting painting sculpture woman table

Alegoria wiary katolickiej

drawing
by Carlo Maratta (17th century)
belief

Trionfo di Venezia

painting
by Paolo Veronese (1585)

Allegory of Virtues

painting
by Antonio da Correggio (1531)
angel astrology astronomy compass child lion lyre Minerva None sphere virtue

Allegory of peace

painting
by Jan Lievens (1652)

Taste

painting
by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1618)
taste banquet dog food landscape Venus Bacchus kitchen Cibeles and the seasons within a festoon of fruit Marriage at Cana swan

Allegory of Luxuria

drawing
by Pisanello (1426s)
rabbit woman half reclining nudity underweight long hair afro breast umbilicus toe hip drapery eyebrow smile lust personification barefoot

Triumph of Chastity

painting
by Lorenzo Lotto (1530)
mons pubis

A Girl Defending Herself against Eros

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1880)
Eros girl

Cabeça da República

painting
by Décio Villares (20th century)
Brasil República republic

[no title]

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1623s)
Marie de' Medici Mercury treaty

Incense

painting
by Fernand Khnopff (1898)

Spring. Ebba and Sigrid Kähler

painting
by Laurits Andersen Ring (1895)
Sigrid Kähler hat tree garden house spring standing girl

Peace bringing back Prosperity

painting
by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1780)
woman

Hercules at the Crossroads

painting
by Pompeo Batoni (1753s)
Heracles vice virtue Athena Rosa