作品詳細

コレクションNo.

NGL002243

作品No.

NG6454

画像No.

N-6454-00-000019-A3

 

 

作品名

Time unveiling Truth

作品名欧文

Time unveiling Truth

 

 

作家名

ド・トロワ，ジャン・フランソワ

作家名欧文

de Troy，Jean Fran?ois

 

 

生没年

1679‐1752

 

 

制作年

1733

材質・形状

Oil on canvas

寸法

203 x 208 cm

 

 

画像データ

21.9MB

解説

The winged figure of Time, holding a scythe in the sky, reveals Truth, his daughter, who unmasks an old woman personifying Fraud. The four Cardinal Virtues kneel in tribute at Truth's feet. Fortitude rests by a lion which symbolises her courage, while Justice carries a sword and scales which refer to her power and impartiality. Further back Temperance carries a pitcher of water which signifies abstinence, and Prudence carries a snake, an allusion to her wisdom. In the top right-hand corner is a building which recalls the Pantheon in Rome.The original patron is not known. The subject was not uncommon in painting, and Time and Fraud appear in similar roles in Bronzino's 16th-century Allegory with Venus and Cupid.