Oil painting on canvas by Jules Joseph Lefebvre
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JULES JOSEPH LEFEBVRE "Allegory of vices and virtues" Oil on canvas, 100x150 cm, with inscription on the back "paint par J.Lefebvre". Provenance: Italian private collection 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, next to 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 if