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The art of the Louvre, containing a brief history of the palace and of its collection of paintings, as well as descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their artists (1905)

Potter, Mary Knight, d. 1915 · Boston, L.C. Page & company · leaf 366

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e inthe sky the figure of Time bears up Truth, carrying herto Paradise. A cherub floats on his back near by, holdingTimes sickle and a serpent in the shape of a huge circlet.Below, sitting on the architectural framework, are Envyon the right, Anger, or Discord, on the left. Timesbody is somewhat… … TIME RESCUING TRUTH FROM THE ATTACKS OF ENVY AND DISCORD By Poussin Salle flDollten 277 his legs. His wide wings are in brown and gray tones.Truth, lying in Times arms, is a beautiful golden-hairednude woman, with flesh of much lighter tone than Time.Her face is turned in profile, her arms are…

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