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Time Saving Truth from Falsehood

Academician / Baroque / French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy” of 1737 by Francois Lemoyne.  This allegorical Rococo masterpiece was produced when Lemoyne was fifty-nine years old and completed the day before his suicide.  He began his studies when he was thirteen and won the Prix de Rome in 1711.  Seven years later at the age of thirty he became a member of the Academie and became a professor in 1733.  He led in the in the fashion of large allegorical paintings which disappeared upon his death on June 4, 1737.  His suicide was probably prompted by insanity which overcame him after the death of his wife.

Reproduction for sale on Zazzle