La Victoire et la Paix (1807)
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon1807 · Portrait · Public domain
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Provenance and rights
- Rights
- Public domain (artist died 1823)
Specifications
- Year
- 1807
- Nationality / school
- French
- Lifespan
- 1758–1823
About the artwork
This page presents "La Victoire et la Paix" (1807), created by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. Mythology, a short history: Artists from the Renaissance to the Symbolists returned to myth to explore love, power, fate, and transformation. In European academies, history and mythological subjects ranked highest among painting genres, so they often appear on a large scale and with ambitious compositions. About the period around 1807: Landscape gained new prestige through groups such as the Barbizon painters in France and the Hudson River School in the United States, and by mid-century Realism turned to ordinary people and everyday labour. The first half of the nineteenth century moved from Neoclassicism to Romanticism, which placed emotion, nature, and the sublime at the centre of painting. The catalogue places it in Mythology. The format is portrait.
"La Victoire et la Paix" is shown in the onlly.art catalogue for reference and browsing. A portrait format suits narrow wall spaces, hallways, and the area beside a door or window. Browsing works by the same artist, or from the same period, is a good way to compare styles before choosing what suits your space.
About the artist
French, 1758–1823
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