# Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy

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## Artwork

- Artist: [LEMOYNE, François](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lemoyne-franois-rbaccce08690521>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 149 x 114 cm, enlarged to 181 x 148 cm

## Commentary

This is Lemoyne&#39;s last picture, on which he had been working within hours of taking his own life. It was enlarged c. 1760 to make up a set of four Lemoynes then owned by the financier Bouret.

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- [Amorous Proposal](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lemoyne-franois-rbaccce08690521/amorous-proposal-r4560783fbec064>)
- [Hercules and Omphale](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lemoyne-franois-rbaccce08690521/hercules-and-omphale-radf34be8a28496>)
- [Hunting Picnic](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lemoyne-franois-rbaccce08690521/hunting-picnic-r1b32f5c288aa74>)
- [Perseus and Andromeda](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lemoyne-franois-rbaccce08690521/perseus-and-andromeda-r0cd7c32f11afaf>)
- [The Apotheosis of Hercules](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lemoyne-franois-rbaccce08690521/the-apotheosis-of-hercules-r1284e86d3d4bf7>)
- [The Bather](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lemoyne-franois-rbaccce08690521/the-bather-r0e3c31aa5d98f3>)

## Attribution

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