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Allegory of Vices and Virtues - Jules Joseph Lefebvre - Canvas Oil Painting brings gallery-caliber art into everyday spaces. This fine art oil painting is a 100% hand painted oil painting on canvas, created for buyers who want genuine refined canvas wall art instead of a mass-produced poster or paper print.
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.
Our artists reproduce this fine art composition in oil on canvas by hand, preserving the tonal range that makes fine art oil painting so sought after for a dining room.
Materials matter for refined wall decor. That is why this piece is built on artist-grade canvas with lightfast oil colors, applied by hand rather than output from a printer, and sealed for long-term display.
Style it over a fireplace, behind a reading chair, or along a staircase. Wherever it goes, this refined oil painting wall decor adds the layered color that only a hand painted canvas provides.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 30 X 40 in | $368.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $509.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $914.98 |
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Every canvas is painted by hand in oils on artist-grade stretched canvas, with an extra blank border left for framing. How to care for your painting.
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