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Innocence Prefers Love to Riches, c. 1804. Oil on panel.
Oil on panel · 34.3 × 27.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Innocence Prefers Love to Riches
- Artist
- Pierre Paul Prud'hon (French, 1758–1823)
- Date
- c. 1804
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 34.3 × 27.2 cm (13 1/2 × 10 9/16 in.); Framed: 44.5 × 37.2 cm (17 1/2 × 14 5/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1758–1823
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.




