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An Allegory of Louis XIV
Artist: Francesco Solimena (Italian, 1657 - 1747)
Original Dimensions: 18 1/2" x 23"
Location: National Gallery of Art, London
About Artwork: (About 1700) "This oil sketch has long been associated with a finished painting known as the Allegory of Louis XIV, King of France (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg). Both feature Minerva, goddess of wisdom and warfare; here, she is seated on the back of a lion and points with a commanding gesture to a shield held up by putti. Next to Minerva is an aged, bearded man personifying Time, identifiable by the scythe and hourglass lying beside him. He bends forward under the weight of a book, in which the winged figure of Fame (or History) is about to write. The shield in the St Petersburg painting has been filled with an inscription and a portrait likeness of Empress Catherine the Great, but here it bears neither a portrait nor an inscription. Although the sketch was previously thought to be an oil study for the finished painting, it is more likely a record of Solimena’s composition that he kept in his studio to show to prospective patrons." - (National Gallery of Art, London)
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