Thursday, January 14, 2010

Allegory of Winter | 18thC. French Painting

Oil on Canvas, Allegory of Winter
Artist: Jacques de La Joue the Younger (French, 1686–1761)
Dimensions: Irregular, 39 1/4 x 41 5/8 in.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906

The painting accurately captures the face of winter, doesn't it? It makes me cold just to look at it.



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