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  • 1835.05.19/ maison de ventes : Phillips (Harry). Vente de l'œuvre décrite comme [[Seven celebrated Compositions by J. Ligozzi, representing Allegories of Pride Avarice Luxury Anger Gluttony Envy, and Idleness The Pictures here offered to the inspection of British Connoiseurs are remarkable not as Works of Art alone, but also as examples of that disposition to inculcate Moral Lessons, which both Art and Literature in their purest state ever adopt. The Vices are personified, as in parable, that novelty may attract the careless to ponder on the concealed truth, and strengthen the considerate with fresh motives for perseverance in rectitude. The painter has not here chosen religious subjects, to display his skill in landscape or his mastery in portraiture, but has devised every expressionn of the figures, and adjunct of the composition, to reprove the exceeding sinfulness of the heart -- to recall to each the words of the divine sermon, and their application -- "If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light: But if "thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness." At first it may seem strange, that vices most strongly displayed in the actions of men, should each be represented by women -- the first teacher of infant piety, the last fond prompter of the death-bed prayer -- But the genius of the Italian language making the passions, the vices, and virtues mostly feminine, compelled the painter to represent these vices by females, as it would oblige him to depict Prudence, Faith, Charity, Constancy, &c. in the various expressions of female beauty (J. Ligozzi)|Seven celebrated Compositions by J. Ligozzi, representing Allegories of Pride Avarice Luxury Anger Gluttony Envy, and Idleness The Pictures here offered to the inspection of British Connoiseurs are remarkable not as Works of Art alone, but also as examples of that disposition to inculcate Moral Lessons, which both Art and Literature in their purest state ever adopt. The Vices are personified, as in parable, that novelty may attract the careless to ponder on the concealed truth, and strengthen the considerate with fresh motives for perseverance in rectitude. The painter has not here chosen religious subjects, to display his skill in landscape or his mastery in portraiture, but has devised every expressionn of the figures, and adjunct of the composition, to reprove the exceeding sinfulness of the heart -- to recall to each the words of the divine sermon, and their application -- "If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light: But if "thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness." At first it may seem strange, that vices most strongly displayed in the actions of men, should each be represented by women -- the first teacher of infant piety, the last fond prompter of the death-bed prayer -- But the genius of the Italian language making the passions, the vices, and virtues mostly feminine, compelled the painter to represent these vices by females, as it would oblige him to depict Prudence, Faith, Charity, Constancy, &c. in the various expressions of female beauty]] réalisée par J. Ligozzi, vendue par A Foreigner au prix de 30.9 £. [23]