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Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime

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  • Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck with Wife and Children, oil on canvas by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, c. 1801–02; in the Louvre, Paris. 263.5 × 200 cm.
    In Pierre-Paul Prud’hon

    …honour with an allegorical work, Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime (1808). The elegance, fancy, and grace of his work, reminiscent of the pre-Revolutionary era, prompted David to compare him unfavourably with the Rococo master François Boucher. Because of his imperfect understanding of the aging of pigment, Prud’hon’s paintings have…

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