19th century French school, after Jacques-Antoine Vallin (17 - Lot 116

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19th century French school, after Jacques-Antoine Vallin (17 - Lot 116
19th century French school, after Jacques-Antoine Vallin (1760-1835) Venus and Love. Oil on canvas. 46 x 56 cm. Presented in a neoclassical frame, bearing a cartouche suggesting attribution to Pierre-Paul Prudh'on (1758-1823). Our Venus and Love is based on an almost identical composition in the Musée Saint-Léger in Soissons (oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm, inv. 93.7.2761). The landscape background of an Arcadian park, present in the original, is replaced here by a neutral background. Jacques-Antoine Vallin is part of a long iconographic tradition in which Venus and Love embody the power of desire, a theme treated extensively since the Renaissance by masters such as Titian, Paolo Veronese and François Boucher. In the Neoclassical period, this mythological subject retained all its appeal, as it allowed us to combine idealized nudity, sensual grace and amorous allegory. Vallin takes up this traditional dialogue between mother and winged son, but gives it a more theatrical dimension through the gesture of Venus, who seizes or directs Amour's action by asking him to turn his arrows towards the viewer himself, symbolically integrating him into the scene. In this way, the painting no longer simply represents a mythological scene: it becomes a mischievous invitation, in which the audience is designated as the next target of love's strokes. (minor accidents) Expert : Pierre-Antoine MARTENET (Quirinal Art) 06 08 17 28 49 pam@quirinal.fr
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