genre: allegory / instance of: painting

commissioned by: Tribunale della Mercanzia (7) | Isabella d'Este (6) | 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) | Birmingham Museum of Art (2) | Samuel H. Kress Collection (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)

movement: academic art (22) | Flemish Primitives (8) | Early Renaissance (8) | Symbolism (7) | Venetian school (6) | Romanticism (5) | mannerism (5) | neoclassicism (4) | Baroque (4) | High Renaissance (4) | Art Nouveau (3) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (3) | Baroque painting (3) | Vienna Secession (2) | Dutch Golden Age painting (2) | Renaissance art (2) | expressionism (1) | rococo (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) | Jacek Malczewski (10) | Paul Cézanne (9) | anonymous (9) | Hans von Aachen (8) | Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin (8) | Jan Brueghel the Elder (8) | Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (7) | Titian (6) | Charles Le Brun (6) | Pompeo Batoni (6) | Piero del Pollaiolo (6) | Francisco Goya (5) | Paolo Veronese (5) | Charles Meynier (5) | Giuseppe Arcimboldo (4) | Gustav Klimt (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 (201) | nudity (65) | man (55) | putto (46) | sitting (42) | cloud (38) | tree (31) | sky (30) | breast (30) | long hair (29) | flower (26) | umbilicus (26) | child (24) | horse (23) | Cupid (21) | barefoot (21) | book (19) | France (18)

material used: oil paint (424) | canvas (330) | wood (42) | panel (25) | tempera (20) | paper (6) | paint (6) | copper (4) | canvas (4) | plaster (3) | oak (3) | poplar wood (2) | vellum (2) | cardboard (2) | gold (1) | graphite (1) | oils (1) | chalk (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (123) | Musée d'Orsay (40) | National Museum in Warsaw (35) | Museum of the History of France (18) | private collection (17) | Museo del Prado (12) | Uffizi Gallery (11) | Museu Histórico Nacional collection (9) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (8) | National Gallery of Art (6) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (6) | Condé Museum (6) | town hall of Paris 10th arrondissement (6) | Musée des Augustins (6) | Musée de Cahors Henri-Martin (6) | Collection of paintings of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (6) | Hermitage Museum (5) | National Gallery (5)

location: Musée d'Orsay (37) | National Museum in Warsaw (18) | museum's storage space (17) | 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) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (7) | National Gallery of Art (6) | Condé Museum (6) | town hall of Paris 10th arrondissement (6) | Musée de Cahors Henri-Martin (6) | Uffizi Gallery (6) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (5) | Musée des Augustins (5) | Galerie d'Apollon (5)

part of: The Four Seasons (4) | Marie de' Medici cycle (4) | Isabella d'Este Studiolo (3) | The Five Senses in Five Paintings (3) | The Five Senses in Two Paintings (2) | médaillons de la salle Percier et Fontaine au palais du Louvre (2) | The Pilgrimage of Life Triptych (2) | Former Diptych, split and held in two museums (2) | Ship of Fools (1) | Beethoven Frieze (1) | An Allegory of Intemperance (1) | Pollaiolo, Room 9 (1) | Triptych Pagagnotti (1) | None (1)

country of origin: France (21) | Italy (7) | United States of America (6) | Spain (3)

exhibition history: Salon of 1833 (9) | 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: truth (2) | charity (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | love (1) | music (1) | industry (1) | family (1) | agriculture (1) | art of painting (1) | Rotterdam (1) | rape (1) | taste (1) | hearing (1) | visual perception (1) | hope (1) | avarice (1) | Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (1) | touch (1)

donated by: 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) | Vienna (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) | encaustic painting (1)