File:Octave Tassaert - Heaven and Hell - 1980.287 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif

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Octave Tassaert: Heaven and Hell  wikidata:Q60474662 reasonator:Q60474662
Artist
Octave Tassaert  (1800–1874)  wikidata:Q722787
 
Octave Tassaert
Alternative names
Nicolas F. O. Tassaert, Nicolas Octave Tassaert
Description French painter, printmaker, lithographer, illustrator, drawer and manufacturer
Date of birth/death 26 July 1800 Edit this at Wikidata 22 April 1874 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris 14th arrondissement of Paris
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artist QS:P170,Q722787
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Title
Heaven and Hell Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Len,"Heaven and Hell"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description

This painting focuses upon the struggle between good and evil for the soul of a young woman. Looking out at the viewer, she is shown in the upper center of the composition, immediately below an angel and directly above Satan. At the upper right Saint Michael-holding scales for weighing the goodness of souls-admits the Blessed to Heaven. Below, the Damned struggle to avoid the firey pits of Hell and the demons that will torment them for eternity.

At the time Tassaert painted this work, France was undergoing considerable political upheaval. In 1848, the country was wracked by a civil war between royalist and republican forces. Tassaert himself believed strongly in the Republic, and probably intended the young woman-caught between the sensual, worldy temptations of royalist excesses and the noble, pure ideals of the Republic-to personify the country of France.
Depicted people
Date circa 1850
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on fabric
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q5295538,P518,Q861259
Dimensions Framed: 121 x 90.5 x 6.5 cm (47 5/8 x 35 5/8 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 100 x 69.5 cm (39 3/8 x 27 3/8 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Accession number
1980.287
Place of creation France, 19th century
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Object history bequeathed by Noah L. Butkin
References https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.287 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.287

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