genre: allegory / collection: Museum of the History of France

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18 artworks found

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instance of: painting (18)

commissioned by: Louis XV of France (1) | Louis XIV of France (1) | Tuileries Palace (1)

owned by: Louis XV of France (2) | France (1) | Palace of Versailles (1) | Louis XIV of France (1)

movement: neoclassicism (1)

based on: Marie Adelaide of France as Diana (1)

artist: Noël Coypel (3) | René-Antoine Houasse (3) | Jean-Marc Nattier (2) | Antoine-François Callet (2) | Antoine-Jean Gros (1) | Pierre Mignard (1) | Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1) | Charles-Joseph Natoire (1) | François-Guillaume Ménageot (1) | Jean Nocret (1) | anonymous (1) | Pierre Bourguignon (1)

depicts: woman (8) | putto (5) | sitting (5) | cloud (4) | crown (4) | helmet (4) | France (3) | flower (3) | sky (3) | horse (3) | child (3) | Louis XIV of France (3) | tree (3) | Laurus nobilis (3) | Apollo (3) | Juno (3) | Minerva (3) | shield (3)

material used: oil paint (17) | canvas (15) | plaster (2)

location: Dauphine’s bedchamber (2) | Palace of Versailles (1) | None (1) | Sacre Hall (1) | None (1)

country of origin: France (2)

exhibition history: Sacre Hall (1) | Salon of 1789 (1) | Salon of 1704 (1) | Salon of 1783 (1) | Magritte. La trahison des images (1)

main subject: art of painting (1) | Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (1)

location of final assembly: France (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

Allegory on the 18th Brumaire, or: France saved

painting
by Antoine-François Callet (1801)
18 Brumaire France crown olive branch Heracles Nemean lion

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painting
by Pierre Mignard (1674)
Louis XIV of France Victoria helmet horse crown equestrianism woman fortification Laurus nobilis landscape village

Louis XIV and the royal family

painting
by Jean Nocret (1670)
Louis XIV of France Anne of Austria Apollo Aurora bijou Bivalvia Ceres crown Cupid child family woman flame flower Isis Juno Laurus nobilis Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy Marie Louise d'Orléans Maria Theresa of Spain peacock crown prince sceptre Sun sitting wind

Dispute between Minerva and Neptune over the Naming of the City of Athens

painting
by René-Antoine Houasse (1689)
horse deity Juno Jupiter Minerva Neptune paganism

Allégorie de la naissance du Dauphin.22 Octobre 1781

painting
by François-Guillaume Ménageot (1783)
maternal bond crowd France justice Mercury baby crown prince putto

Figure of the Royal Magnificence, Immortality and Progress in the Fine Arts

painting
by René-Antoine Houasse (1683)

Allegory of the first French Republic

painting
by Antoine-Jean Gros
architecture phrygian cap helmet woman scientific instrument spear liberty nudity republic breast

Henriette of France as Flora

painting
by Jean-Marc Nattier (1742)
Princess Henriette of France woman half reclining flower Flora sky wreath sandal dress smile cloud Papaver décolletage

The Origin of Painting

painting
by Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1786)
couple man woman Halterneck sitting drawing headscarf chignon chestnut hair daughter painter charcoal pedestal column walking stick silhouette dog shadow herder standing blond piccolo oboe wind instrument teenager tree sky cloud low-angle shot rural area

Justice punishing

painting
by Noël Coypel (1681s)
justice fear putto

Abundance

painting
by Noël Coypel (1700)
wheat flower landscape putto grape sitting

Marie Adelaide of France as Diana

painting
by Jean-Marc Nattier (1745)
Princess Marie Adélaïde of France woman Diana sitting bow sandal dress arrow quiver tree rock watercourse sky cloud Artemis décolletage

Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre

painting
by Antoine-François Callet (1789)
weighing scale sword woman glove justice Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine Regalia coronation seat clothing

Story of Apollo - Apollo Crowned by Victory after Having Slayed Python

painting
by Noël Coypel (1688)
Apollo tree bow quiver crown Laurus nobilis lyre putto snake

Allegory of the Birth of Marie-Zéphyrine of France, daughter of Louis of France

painting
by Charles-Joseph Natoire (1750)
maternal bond putto trumpet Juno crowd acclamation palace shield achievement door Princess Marie Zéphyrine of France Marne Seine child Abundantia France baby

Henriette-Anne d'Angleterre, duchesse d'Orléans, dite Madame (1644-1670)

painting
by Pierre Bourguignon (1665)
Princess Henrietta of England Apollo shield woman Minerva art of painting sitting

Louis XIV, roi de France (1638-1715)

painting
by anonymous (1653)
Louis XIV of France body armor helmet horse child sword equestrianism gold Paris bridge