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commissioned by: Isabella d'Este (6) | Napoleon (1) | Louis XV of France (1) | Louis XIV of France (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) | Louis XV of France (2) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Louvre Museum (2) | Switzerland (1) | Palace of Versailles (1) | Gustave Doré (1) | Cardinal Richelieu (1) | Pinacoteca di Brera (1) | Cardinal Mazarin (1) | Jacques Lacan (1) | Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes (1) | Ferenc Hatvany (1) | Thomas Charles Hope (1) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1) | Paolo Giovio (1) | Halil Şerif Paşa (1) | Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer (1)

movement: academic art (20) | Symbolism (7) | Venetian school (6) | Romanticism (5) | neoclassicism (4) | High Renaissance (4) | Art Nouveau (2) | mannerism (2) | Baroque painting (2) | Baroque (1) | expressionism (1) | rococo (1) | classicism (1) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1) | Vienna Secession (1) | Italian Renaissance (1) | Dutch Golden Age painting (1) | Realism (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) | 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 (18) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (14) | Paul Cézanne (9) | Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (7) | Titian (6) | Hans von Aachen (6) | Pompeo Batoni (6) | anonymous (6) | Francisco Goya (4) | Giuseppe Arcimboldo (4) | Jean-Léon Gérôme (4) | Jean-Marc Nattier (4) | Simon Vouet (4) | Nicolai Abildgaard (4) | Thomas Cole (4) | Annibale Carracci (3) | Paolo Veronese (3) | Gustave Courbet (3)

part of the series: Marie de' Medici cycle (5) | The Four Seasons (4) | The Voyage of Life (3)

depicts: woman (136) | nudity (44) | man (40) | putto (33) | sitting (28) | cloud (26) | breast (21) | tree (20) | long hair (20) | child (19) | umbilicus (18) | flower (17) | sky (16) | Cupid (16) | France (15) | horse (15) | sword (14) | Minerva (14)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (96) | Musée d'Orsay (37) | National Museum in Warsaw (23) | Museum of the History of France (15) | private collection (13) | Museu Histórico Nacional collection (9) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (7) | Condé Museum (6) | National Gallery of Art (5) | Musée des Augustins (5) | Hermitage Museum (4) | Mauritshuis (3) | Statens Museum for Kunst (3) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (3) | J. Paul Getty Museum (3) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (3) | Ribe Kunstmuseum (3) | Collection of paintings of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (3)

location: Musée d'Orsay (35) | Room 801 (15) | National Museum in Warsaw (12) | museum's storage space (11) | National Historical Museum (9) | Louvre Palace (8) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (7) | in Painting's depot of the Musée du Louvre or in temporary movement (7) | Condé Museum (6) | National Gallery of Art (5) | Room 712 (5) | Room 716 (5) | Room 826 (5) | Hermitage Museum (4) | Musée des Augustins (4) | Room 722 (4) | Room 724 (4) | Louvre Museum (3)

part of: The Four Seasons (4) | Marie de' Medici cycle (4) | Isabella d'Este Studiolo (3)

country of origin: France (21) | United States of America (6) | Italy (5) | Spain (2)

exhibition history: Salon of 1833 (6) | Salon of 1827 (5) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (2) | Salon of 1808 (2) | Salon of 1857 (2) | San Francisco (1) | Warsaw (1) | Budapest (1) | Verona (1) | Madrid (1) | Strasbourg (1) | Bucharest (1) | Nashville (1) | Musée d'Orsay (1) | Bourg-en-Bresse (1) | Ornans (1) | Brooklyn Museum (1) | Beyeler Foundation (1)

main subject: charity (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | truth (1) | industry (1) | family (1) | art of painting (1) | hope (1) | Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (1) | Roman Charity (1) | Spanish Constitution of 1812 (1) | admiration (1) | annexation of Alsace-Lorraine (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) | São Paulo (1) | Germany (1) | National Council of Switzerland (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (2) | encaustic painting (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

La Guerre

painting
by Henri Rousseau (1894)
cadaver horse raven sword woman broad-leaved tree cloud torch

The Reign of Comus

painting
by Lorenzo Costa (1511)
Anteros Arion Bacchus hill Cupid broad-leaved tree string instrument İznik Janus lyre Mercury plain Venus

Glorificação de Anchieta

painting
by Lucílio de Albuquerque (1908)
Catholicism Christian Church Indigenous peoples in Brazil Society of Jesus Joseph of Anchieta São Paulo

Peace

painting
by Jacques Dumont le Romain (1749)
olive branch crown woman laurel wreath

Double wreath surrounding a medaillion with the triumph of love

painting
by Domenichino (1626s)
pigeon Cupid flower putto

Louis XIII

painting
by Simon Vouet (18th century)
Louis XIII of France woman personification personification drapery laurel wreath standing body armor Order of the Holy Spirit kneeling man

Winter

painting
by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1575)
tree mouth mushroom head hair lemon sword flower garland Hedera winter man root trunk

The Inspiration of the Poet

painting
by Nicolas Poussin (1629)
putto laurel wreath lyre Iliad Odyssey Aeneid Mount Parnassus tree quill Virgil Calliope sky poet Apollo Citharoedus woman

La musique - Portrait de M. de la Bretèche

painting
by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1769)
allegory

Rêve de printemps

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1901)
spring dream girl sitting black hair headband long hair barefoot chiton Flora putto flight arrow Cupid Eros blond Erotes bird's wing wreath umbilicus nudity flower rose forest tree understory grass arches of the foot malleolus

Sea Harbor, Fog Effect

painting
by Claude Lorrain (1646)
light source contre-jour port fortification portico sailing ship mist Ascanius dog Aeneas Achates tower column group of humans

Study and Genius unveil ancient Egypt to Greece

painting
by François-Édouard Picot (1827)
Egypt Greece cloud putto meeting

Painting Breathes Life into Sculpture

painting
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1893)
art of sculpture art of painting painting sculpture woman table

Trionfo di Venezia

painting
by Paolo Veronese (1585)

Allegory of Virtues

painting
by Antonio da Correggio (1531)
angel astrology astronomy compass child lion lyre Minerva None sphere virtue

Allegory of peace

painting
by Jan Lievens (1652)

Triumph of Chastity

painting
by Lorenzo Lotto (1530)
mons pubis

A Girl Defending Herself against Eros

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1880)
Eros girl

Cabeça da República

painting
by Décio Villares (20th century)
Brasil República republic

[no title]

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1623s)
Marie de' Medici Mercury treaty

Incense

painting
by Fernand Khnopff (1898)

Spring. Ebba and Sigrid Kähler

painting
by Laurits Andersen Ring (1895)
Sigrid Kähler hat tree garden house spring standing girl

Peace bringing back Prosperity

painting
by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1780)
woman

Hercules at the Crossroads

painting
by Pompeo Batoni (1753s)
Heracles vice virtue Athena Rosa

Public Felicity Triumphant over Dangers

painting
by Orazio Gentileschi (1623s)
balustrade Caduceus sky cornucopia woman

Allegory of the City of Madrid

painting
by Francisco Goya (1809)

Hercules at the Crossroads

painting
by Pompeo Batoni (1742)
Heracles vice virtue Athena Rosa

Minha Terra (tríptico) (1)

painting
by Helios Seelinger (1922)
animal flag national flag horse Discovery of Brazil Independence of Brazil Proclamation of the Republic

Bethsabée

painting
by Paul Cézanne (1885s)

Protestantismen, allegori

painting
by Nicolai Abildgaard (1809)

Allegory of Inclination

painting
by Artemisia Gentileschi (1615)

France comforted by Time

painting
by Jean-Charles Nicaise Perrin
angel shield combat woman man soldier

Wealth

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

Water, or the Fight of Achilles against Scamander and Simoeis

painting
by Auguste Couder (1819)
shield combat deity water spear paganism Scamander

Allegory of Isabella d'Este's Coronation

painting
by Lorenzo Costa (1505)
Anteros Apollo bow ox Cadmus courtyard crown watercourse cuirass Diana animal husbandry broad-leaved tree arrow string instrument lyre bird poetry sailing ship

The dream

painting
by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1883)
love woman divine glory man night wealth sleep

Allegory of the Arts

painting
by Bernardo Strozzi (1640)

'L'Aurore'

painting
by Léon Frédéric (1900s)
dawn twilight Aurora woman standing nudity veil see-through clothing breast umbilicus contrapposto barefoot toe drapery gaze towards the viewer malleolus

The King governs by himself, 1661

painting
by Charles Le Brun (1681)
woman lion

The Four Continents

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1615)
Europe Africa Asia Americas Danube Nile Ganges Río de la Plata

Sir James Thornhill

painting
by James Thornhill (19th century)
James Thornhill

Allegory on the 18th Brumaire, or: France saved

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

The Kiss of the Muse

painting
by Paul Cézanne (1860)
Muses kiss window desk poet

Capture of the city and citadel of Gand in six days, 1678

painting
by Charles Le Brun (1681)
shield citadel woman lightning spear cloud trumpet