genre: allegory

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)