Peace Bringing Back Abundance

Peace Bringing Back Abundance is a 1780 painting by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the collection of the Louvre, in Paris.

[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.

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.