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The Spirit of Liberty Establishes the Empire of Wisdom on Earth
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The Spirit of Liberty Establishes the Empire of Wisdom on Earth

Medium

Engraving with etching

Tags

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Pierre Paul Prud'hon

1758–1823France

Born 4 April 1758. Student of F. Desvoges, painter, at the École de Dijon. Left Dijon for Paris in 1780. Became a member of the Institut de France in 1816. Comment on works: Portraits, allegory