An Allegory of Prudence Oriental The main characteristic of this

The main characteristic of this composition is obviously a motionless black ocean against the background of which colors and shapes emerge in isolation

The space comes down to a plain gray wall delimited by a plinth

Claude Monet explicitly designed 'Water Lilies' as an "asylum"

The colors are those that we often find in the painter: red and green

An Allegory of Prudence Oriental The main characteristic of thisIt is a portrait of three heads of men superimposed on three heads of animals: on the left, an older man and a wolf; in the center, a middle aged man and a lion; and on the right, a young man and a dog. Above their heads we can see a motto written in Latin, arranged in three groups of words from left to right: ex praterito praesens prudenter agit ne futura actione deturpet, which means: "informed of the past, the present act cautiously, lest he should