Venus and the sphinx

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Like much of the sculpture of the Romantic movement in French art, Préault's (1809-1879) work was rejected from the Paris Salons throughout the 1830s and 1840s; his official recognition came after the Revolution of 1848. This plaster group is the working model for the commission of 1867 for the imperial palace at Fontainbleau and it shows Venus (the Roman godess of love beauty) sitting on a sphinx (a mythical creature, half woman, half lioness).  

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met", is located in New York City and is the largest art museum in the United States, and is among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe.

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