Truth Coming Out of Her Well
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La Vérité sortant du puits armée de son martinet pour châtier l'humanité is an 1896 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Jean Léon Gerome 1896 La Vérité sortant du puits
La Vérité (c. 1879) by Paul Baudry, Musée d'Orsay
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La Vérité (1883) by Jules-Arsène Garnier [fr], private collection
Mendacibus et histrionibus occisa in puteo jacet alma Veritas (The nurturer Truth lies in a well, having been killed by liars and actors, 1895) by Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme
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Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880."
Truth Coming Out of Her Well
…martinet pour châtier l'humanité (English: Truth coming from the well armed with her whip to chastise humanity) is an 1896 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. Starting in the mid-1890s, during the final decade of his life, Gérôme made at least four paintings personifying Truth as a nude woman, either thrown…
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Birthplace of Jean-Léon Gérôme in Vesoul, France
The Cock Fight (1846; Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
The Age of Augustus, the Birth of Christ, c. 1852–1854, Musée de Picardie