genre: allegory / material used: oil paint

instance of: painting (424) | mural (4) | triptych (2) | tondo (1) | oil sketch (1) | study (1) | fresco (1)

commissioned by: Tribunale della Mercanzia (4) | Isabella d'Este (3) | 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) | Ferdinand Gonzaga (1) | Comité grec de Paris (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: France (5) | Antoine Poullain (3) | Louis XV of France (2) | Louis XIV of France (2) | municipality (2) | Louvre Museum (2) | Switzerland (1) | Argentina (1) | Palace of Versailles (1) | Gustave Doré (1) | Cardinal Richelieu (1) | Francesco Maria del Monte (1) | Pinacoteca di Brera (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Cardinal Mazarin (1) | Jacques Lacan (1) | Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes (1) | Ferenc Hatvany (1)

movement: academic art (22) | Symbolism (7) | Flemish Primitives (7) | Venetian school (6) | neoclassicism (4) | Romanticism (4) | Baroque (4) | mannerism (4) | Early Renaissance (4) | High Renaissance (4) | Art Nouveau (3) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (3) | Baroque painting (3) | Dutch Golden Age painting (2) | expressionism (1) | rococo (1) | classicism (1) | Vienna Secession (1)

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) | Magdalene in Meditation (1) | Marie Adelaide of France as Diana (1) | The Kiss of the Muse (1)

artist: Peter Paul Rubens (24) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (14) | Paul Cézanne (9) | Jan Brueghel the Elder (8) | Jacek Malczewski (8) | Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (7) | Titian (6) | Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin (6) | Pompeo Batoni (6) | anonymous (6) | Charles Le Brun (5) | Charles Meynier (5) | Giuseppe Arcimboldo (4) | Paolo Veronese (4) | Hans Memling (4) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (4) | Jacob Jordaens (4) | Jean-Marc Nattier (4)

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 (178) | nudity (57) | man (51) | putto (40) | cloud (35) | sitting (34) | tree (26) | breast (25) | long hair (25) | child (23) | horse (22) | umbilicus (22) | sky (21) | flower (20) | France (18) | book (18) | Cupid (18) | dog (16)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (118) | Musée d'Orsay (42) | National Museum in Warsaw (34) | Museum of the History of France (17) | private collection (16) | Museo del Prado (10) | Museu Histórico Nacional collection (9) | National Gallery of Art (6) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (6) | Musée des Augustins (6) | Hermitage Museum (5) | National Gallery (5) | Condé Museum (5) | Uffizi Gallery (5) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (4) | Rijksmuseum (4) | Mauritshuis (4) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (4)

location: Musée d'Orsay (39) | National Museum in Warsaw (17) | museum's storage space (17) | Room 801 (15) | Museo del Prado (10) | in Painting's depot of the Musée du Louvre or in temporary movement (10) | National Historical Museum (9) | Louvre Palace (7) | National Gallery of Art (6) | Galerie d'Apollon (6) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (5) | Condé Museum (5) | Musée des Augustins (5) | Room 712 (5) | Room 716 (5) | Room 826 (5) | Hermitage Museum (4) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (4)

part of: The Four Seasons (4) | Marie de' Medici cycle (4) | The Five Senses in Five Paintings (3) | The Five Senses in Two Paintings (2) | The Pilgrimage of Life Triptych (2) | Former Diptych, split and held in two museums (2) | Ship of Fools (1) | Isabella d'Este Studiolo (1) | An Allegory of Intemperance (1) | Triptych Pagagnotti (1) | None (1)

country of origin: France (21) | United States of America (6) | Italy (6) | Spain (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1833 (8) | Salon of 1827 (6) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (2) | Salon of 1831 (2) | Salon of 1808 (2) | Salon of 1789 (2) | Salon of 1822 (2) | Salon of 1857 (2) | Europeana 280 (2) | Jheronimus Bosch - Visions of genius (2) | Salon of 1783 (2) | San Francisco (1) | Warsaw (1) | Budapest (1) | Verona (1) | Madrid (1) | Strasbourg (1) | Bucharest (1)

main subject: charity (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | love (1) | music (1) | truth (1) | family (1) | art of painting (1) | hope (1) | avarice (1) | Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (1) | Roman Charity (1) | Spanish Constitution of 1812 (1) | admiration (1) | annexation of Alsace-Lorraine (1) | Ages of Man (1)

donated by: Mr. and Mrs. Elton F. MacDonald (1)

location of final assembly: France (4) | Rio de Janeiro (4) | Italy (2) | Brazil (2) | São Paulo (1) | Germany (1) | Mantua (1) | 1640s (1) | National Council of Switzerland (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: oil painting (3) | fresco painting (1) | encaustic painting (1)