File:Hector Leroux--Adoration of the Goddess Pallas Athena.jpg

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Hector Leroux (1829-1900), "Minerve Poliade sur l'Acropole d'Athènes" (version 1), oil on canvas, 89 by 136 cm., signed and dated "Hector LeROUX 1878".

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English: Hector Leroux (1829-1900), "Minerve Poliade sur l'Acropole d'Athènes" (version 1), oil on canvas, 89 by 136 cm., signed and dated "Hector LeROUX 1878" (lower left) and inscribed "AOHNH" on the pedestal underneath the statue. Auctioned at MacDougalls, London, July 7, 2011, under the title "Adoration of the Goddess Pallas Athena." This painting differs significantly from a second version by Leroux that can be seen in an official Paris Salon photo from 1878.

"The Foreshadowings of the Salon" by Lucy H. Hooper in The Art Journal, 1878, pp. 60-61, explains the two different versions, first describing the final version at the Paris Salon: "He [Leroux] has chosen to represent the fall of the miraculous image of Minerva from heaven. The scene occurs upon the summit of a hill near Athens. In the background lies the city beyond the shining waters of the gulf, a view painted from Nature with great accuracy of detail. In the foreground the miraculous image, the gift of the gods, upborne by a floating cloud, is descending to the ground. It is of colossal size, and stands revealed in dusky magnitude against the pale gold of the sky. In front of a group of pines towards the centre of the picture are three young girls, the sole witnesses of the miracle. One stands in wild amazement with uplifted arms, another hides her face in terror, a third crouches on the ground. As originally designed, the canvas was crowded with figures in various attitudes of adoration or of dismay. 'But,' said M. Leroux, 'on mature consideration, it seemed to me best that this ancient miracle, like more modern ones, should have but few witnesses, therefore I laid my first canvas aside and reproduced the whole scene anew.'"
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