Allegorical subject
early 18th century
Medium
Oil on canvas; oak enframement
Dimensions
Overall (enframement, confirmed): 46 5/8 × 63 × 4 3/4 in. (118.4 × 160 × 12.1 cm); Overall (canvas, irregular confirmed): 33 3/4 × 52 1/2 in. (85.7 × 133.4 cm)
Classification
Paintings-Decorative
Culture
French
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906
Accession Number
07.225.157a, b
Tags
Art Historical Context
This enchanting *Allegorical Subject*, created by an anonymous French painter the early 18th, exemplifies the ornate decorative arts of France's Regency period. Rendered in oil on canvas and set within a substantial oak enframement, the painting measures an impressive 46 5/8 × 63 inches overall with the irregular canvas itself spanning 33 3/4 × 52 1/2 inches. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of European Sculpture and Decor Arts, it was generously gifted by J. Pierpont Morgan 1906. Allegorical themes were immensely popular in early 18th-century France, often adorning the w...
About the Artist
French Painter
"French Painter" is a scholarly attribution designation used by art historians and museum curators to catalogue paintings produced in France — or by artists trained in the French tradition — when the specific creator cannot be identified with confidence. Rather than leave a work without provenance context or assign it speculatively to a named artist, curators apply this designation alongside an ap...