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instance of: painting (19) | statue (2) | frontispiece (1) | sculpture (1) | print (1) | etching (1)

owned by: Michael Friedsam (1)

movement: Flemish Primitives (1) | Baroque painting (1) | Dutch Golden Age painting (1) | German Renaissance (1)

based on: Penitent Magdalene (1) | None (1)

artist: Charles Meynier (2) | Francisco Goya (1) | Albrecht Dürer (1) | Peter Paul Rubens (1) | Gustave Courbet (1) | Johannes Vermeer (1) | Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1) | Hieronymus Bosch (1) | Francesco Hayez (1) | Elisabetta Sirani (1) | Simon Vouet (1) | Juriaen Jacobsze (1) | Jacek Malczewski (1) | Sebastiano Ricci (1) | Jan Provoost (1) | Domenico Guidi (1) | Francesco de Mura (1) | Lambert-Sigisbert Adam (1)

material used: oil paint (18) | canvas (13) | wood (3) | marble (3)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (7) | National Museum in Warsaw (2) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | private collection (2) | Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (2) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (1) | Louvre Museum (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Städel Museum (1) | Kunsthalle Hamburg (1) | Bibliothèque nationale de France (1) | National Gallery of Art (1) | Mauritshuis (1) | Georgium (1) | Museum Kunstpalast (1) | Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (1) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (1) | Art Gallery of South Australia (1)

location: Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (1) | Musée d'Orsay (1) | Palazzo Pitti (1) | National Museum in Warsaw (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Nationalmuseum (1) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (1) | museum's storage space (1) | Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon (1) | Piazzetta (1) | Room 817 (1) | Salon rouge (1) | demi-lune du bassin d'Apollon (1) | Duchâtel room (1) | Room 724 (1) | Room 826 (1) | Room 929 (1)

part of: Meisterstiche (1)

country of origin: France (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1831 (1) | Salon of 1822 (1) | Salon of 1833 (1) | Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (1)

main subject: Spanish Constitution of 1812 (1) | Penitent Magdalene (1)

fabrication method: chalcography (1)

Wealth

painting
by Simon Vouet (1640s)
wealth woman bijou laurel wreath book goldsmithing putto

La Vertu entre la Luxure et l’Irréligion

frontispiece / etching
by Philippe Chéry (1791)
man woman clothed female, naked male virtue lust irreligion lesbian libertine drapery snake tree broad-leaved tree standing contrapposto rural area gaze headband veil overcoat clothing in the ancient world barefoot book glabrousness toe Erinyes Apollo umbilicus sky

Allegory of France as Minerva Trampling Ignorance and Crowning Virtue

painting
by Sebastiano Ricci (1717s)
crown scythe woman France genius spear book Spotting scope Minerva prudence sculpture in the round Saturn sphere symbol virtue

Allegory of Arts

painting
by Francesco de Mura (1747s)
astronomy compass woman book partitur pyramid sculpture in the round sitting violin

Melencolia I

print
by Albrecht Dürer (1514)
angel putto sighthound weighing scale compass hourglass ladder magic square truncated triangular trapezohedron bell hammer saw nail plank plane sphere landscape millstone sitting long hair laurel wreath bird's wing part key dress sky clystère belt book city/town boat sea shore personification personification woman tool coin purse rainbow dog bat melancholia

Saint Mary Magdalene in Penance

painting
by Elisabetta Sirani (1663)
nudity textile skull whip head hair meditation penance ecstasy haughtiness crucifix oil lamp landscape Moon moonlight tree Mary Magdalena sitting cave book woman mortification of the flesh long hair

Death of Ellenai

painting
by Jacek Malczewski (1906s)
woman cadaver man kiss fur clothing book

La Terre recevant des empereurs Adrien et Justinien le code des lois romaines dictées par la nature, la justice et la sagesse

painting
by Charles Meynier (1803)
scythe justice book lyre cloud prudence putto trumpet

Truth, Time and History

painting
by Francisco Goya (1797)
personification personification personification woman man standing sitting kneeling chignon dress décolletage toplessness barefoot male toplessness white hair beard loincloth drapery insect wing book writing truth

Allegory of teaching.

painting
by Juriaen Jacobsze (18th century)
teaching woman book man torch child putto

Christian Allegory

painting
by Jan Provoost (1510s)
Virgin Mary book lily

Meditation on the History of Italy

painting
by Francesco Hayez (1850)
woman sitting black hair long hair part chair backrest book history of Italy crucifix toplessness eyebrow gray meditation shoulder breast areola nipple shirt Italia Turrita

Love Asleep on a Skull

painting
by Pieter Moninckx (17th century)
Eros sleep skull book card game dice game vase two of clubs eight of hearts eight of spades two of diamonds king of diamonds die six-sided die Cupid fire

La Renommée du Roi

sculpture
by Domenico Guidi (1677)
None Louis XIV of France personification personification snake Medallion quill bird's wing bite Alexander the Great Scipio Julius Caesar Trajan woman man elderly standing squatting position book writing long hair beard wig himation chiton clothing in ancient Rome male toplessness

The Allegory of Faith

painting
by Johannes Vermeer (1670s)
allegory terrestrial globe woman book

La Renaissance des Arts et des Lettres

painting
by Henri Sieurac (1857)
art literature allegory art of sculpture architecture philosophy poetry génie portico plate woman hammer book lyre angel cloud garland goldsmith ewer

[no title]

painting
by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1769)
entertainment reading book dress smile sitting

Triumph of French Painting: Apotheosis of Poussin, Le Sueur and Le Brun

painting
by Charles Meynier (1820)
apotheosis painter scythe woman book lyre nudity

La Sieste

statue
by Denis Foyatier (1848)
hairstyle dress book woman toplessness sleep shirt fainting couch cushion long hair siesta breast areola umbilicus bed sheet barefoot toe octavo nudity

The Painter's Studio

painting
by Gustave Courbet (1855)
Gustave Courbet Ornans Alfred Bruyas Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Champfleury Charles Baudelaire man studio Paris woman dog Panthéon Lucien Simon Jeanne Simon François Aman-Jean Lucienne Boyer Maurice Brianchon Raymond Legueult reading book nudity Apollonie Sabatier

Cutting the Stone

painting
by Hieronymus Bosch (1494)
trepanning surgeon insanity man woman standing sitting funnel seat table white hair flower book monk tonsure rural area grass meadow broad-leaved tree forest city/town gallows herd plain bell tower aerial perspective sky scalpel clog

Poetry

statue
by Lambert-Sigisbert Adam (1752)
woman nudity laurel wreath standing book quill drapery writing implement Hedera fig leaf water leaf feather poetry

Consequences of War

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1637)
war Thirty Years' War Mars book drawing Temple of Janus Venus Alecto Harmonia mother child architect arrow

Good and Evil

painting
by Victor Orsel (19th century)
angel weighing scale chair chastity combat couple cuirass devil imp kidnapping family woman man Jesus Christ justice reading bed book marriage baby hanging wheel sleep sphere suicide