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• Allegory of Vices and Virtues

• Jules Joseph Lefebvre

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• Oil on canvas
  59.06 x 39.37 inches
  
  The painting depicts a kneeling young man being coaxed by a group of young women depicting vices and virtues. On the right standing the Glory hands him a laurel branch, beside him he has a woman who is an allegory of Silence. A mature and wise woman caresses the child's head: she has a winged crown and is the allegory of Victory. Behind the Victory a beautiful young woman in a blue dress quilted with stars points towards the sky and the virtues that lead upward. Immediately after she follows Venus, half-naked crowned with roses with a dove (his lei attribute of hers)
  in her hand: she looks at the boy smiling and holds a lyre, signifying the pleasures of love and of fragile and fleeting things. At the feet of Venus a bacchant crowned with ivy and dressed in red observes her lascivious young man, kneeling next to her an auleta with long flutes, blue robes and a head covered with flowers, invites to oblivion and enjoyments. In the background are a veiled woman and a half-naked bacchant with a thyrsus intent on a wild dance.
  The painting is an important work of one of the most significant French painters of the late nineteenth century: Jules Joseph Lefebvre.
  
  The artist specialized in allegories, genre scenes, portraits and nudes. Winner of the Prix de Rome in 1861, during his stay in Italy he also painted many works with subjects drawn from classical antiquity. Back in Paris he became a famous academic, known for his paintings depicting beautiful and statuary women, both nude and draped. His paintings are in the main French and European museums.

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Other paintings by Jules Joseph Lefebvre:

Allegorical Figure in Profile

Allegory of Spring

Allegory of Victory

An Elderly Greek Woman