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| Allegory of Poetry |
Artist:Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
Date:1774
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:31 1/2 × 25 5/8 in. (80 × 65 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Henry and Catherine Robet
Vigée was nineteen when officials sealed her studio on the pretext that she was painting professionally without having joined a guild. She therefore applied and was admitted to the Académie de Saint-Luc. Of the works she contributed to her first exhibition, three were allegories of the arts: Painting, Poetry, and Music. Here, Poetry, a draped nude, writes in a portfolio with a goose quill. She looks upward, conveying a moment of inspiration.
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