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| Allegory of Peace and Plenty Oil on canvas 77 x 72 inches (195 x 182 cm) Painted in 1716 | |
This recently discovered painting represents the figure of Peace, who is traditionally crowned with laurel, holding in one hand a torch whose flames are touching the drum at her feet (thus extinguishing the symbols of war), and in the other hand a horn of plenty whose fruit she offers to a figure personifying the River Seine. Above her flies a figure of Fame blowing her trumpet. Notre-Dame Cathedral appears in the background in the right of the painting The figures were painted by Jean-François de Troy, son of François, who was one of the preeminent genre painters of the Rococo style. | ||