Peace Bringing Back Abundance
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| Artist | Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun |
| Year | 1780 |
Peace Bringing Back Abundance is a 1780 painting by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the collection of the Louvre in Paris. Le Brun painted the work as her reception piece for admission into the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.[1] When it was submitted to the Academy in 1783, it was seen as a commentary on the reign of Louis XVI and the signing of a treaty formally ending France's involvement in the American Revolution.[2]: 127
Description
[edit]Peace appears on the right side of the composition and Abundance on the left. Peace has dark hair and clothing, while abundance has blonde hair and a white dress. The art historian Mary Sheriff suggests that the difference in their coloring contained gendered associations in the eighteenth century, with the darker colors being coded as more masculine. According to Sheriff, the more masculine figure of Peace is guiding and controlling the more feminine Abundance.[2]: 126
References
[edit]- ^ "Peace Bringing Back Abundance". Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2016.
- ^ a b Sheriff, Mary D. (1996). The exceptional woman : Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the cultural politics of art. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-75275-4.