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Personification of Painting

Bronze medal depicting an allegory of painting represented as a nude woman, laureate and seated on a bench in front of an easel, with a paintbrush in her right hand and a palette in her left and city in the background

Jules-Clément Chaplain (1839–1909)
Personification of Painting, 1885
Copper alloy, cast
Diam.: 4 in. (10.11 cm)
The Frick Collection; Gift of Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher, 2016

Cat. 116