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| Hilaire Pader The Flagellation 1667 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Charles Le Brun Descent from the Cross ca. 1679-84 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes |
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| Noël Coypel The Crucifixion ca. 1680 oil on canvas Musée Bossuet, Meaux |
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| Pierre Mignard Christ of the Passion 1690 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Noël Coypel Agony in the Garden ca. 1705 oil on copper private collection |
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| Jean Restout the Younger Seated Carthusian Reading 1711 oil on paper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jean Restout the Younger Portrait of a Carthusian Monk ca. 1715 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts |
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| Ambroise Crozat Baptism of Christ 1722 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Jean-François de Troy Adam and Eve 1730 oil on canvas Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky |
The sources of the two dissimilar figures of Adam and Eve are traceable and non-aligned. Adam represents a fully worked-up version of the standardized academic exercise all 18th-century European artists executed countless times in the course of their training, drawing from a formally posed live nude male model. Drawing from live nude female models was only rarely (and unofficially) undertaken, due to moral scruples and societal prohibitions. The figure of Eve shows every sign of having been lifted whole from a painting by Rubens. This prototype would have been executed about a century earlier, which helps to account for the disparities in proportion, reflecting alterations over time in the idealized canon.
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| Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier The Exterminating Angel ca. 1785 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |
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| Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg Destruction of Pharaoh's Army 1792 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg Destruction of Pharaoh's Army (detail) 1792 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jean-Jacques Henner Susanna and the Elders 1864 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Louis Jacquesson de la Chevreuse Dead Martyr ca. 1873 oil on canvas Musée Calvet, Avignon |
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| Odilon Redon Eve 1904 oil on panel Musée d'Orsay, Paris |