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Cast in bronze, one woman stands over a second crouching woman in this free-standing sculpture. Both women are nude, muscular, and have long wavy hair pulled back under bands. The golden-brown surface of the bronze is highly polished and smooth. In this photograph, the standing woman’s body faces us. Representing Empire, her head is encircled with a ring of laurel leaves, and she lifts her left hand, to our right, high overhead to hold up a second crown of leaves. She looks down onto the second woman, representing Avarice, and presses her hand into the Avarice’s shoulder, pushing the latter…

Empire Triumphant over Avarice

Adriaen de Vries (Netherlandish, c. 1556 - 1626)

1610 · bronze

National Gallery of Art · Widener Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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