Peace Bringing Back Abundance

Peace Bringing Back Abundance
Artist	Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Year	1780
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	103 cm × 133 cm (41 in × 52 in)
Location	Louvre, Paris

Peace Bringing Back Abundance is a 1780 painting by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the collection of the Louvre, in Paris. Le Brun painted the work as her reception piece for admission into the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.^[1] When it was submitted to the Academy in 1783, it was seen as a commentary on the reign of Louis XVI and the signing of a treaty formally ending France's involvement in the American Revolution.^[2]: 127

Peace appears on the right side of the composition and Abundance on the left. Peace has dark hair and clothing, while abundance has blonde hair and a white dress. The art historian Mary Sheriff suggests that the difference in their coloring contained gendered associations in the eighteenth century, with the darker colors being coded as more masculine. According to Sheriff, the more masculine figure of Peace is guiding and controlling the more feminine Abundance.^[2]: 126

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