Painting of a winged young man embracing a woman in white, a cupid at lower left, and a woman in red and blue holding a gold casket before trees and a classical building.

Innocence Prefers Love to Riches

A winged young man, partly nude, embraces a young woman in a loose white gown while a crouching cupid with arrows sits at lower left. At right, a woman in a red mantle and blue gown holds an open gold casket, with a classical building and trees behind them in smooth oil paint.

Artist: Pierre Paul Prud'hon
Date: c. 1804
Medium: Oil on panel
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2134 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1809).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection

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Innocence Prefers Love to Riches

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