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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Painting by Jean-Charles Frontier}}<br />
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| image = Vulcain enchaînant Prométhée.png<br />
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| artist = [[Jean-Charles Frontier]]<br />
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'''''Vulcan Chaining Prometheus''''' is a 1744 oil on canvas painting by [[Jean-Charles Frontier]], produced as his [[reception piece]] for the [[Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture|Académie Royale de peinture]].<ref>{{in lang|fr}} {{Cite web|url=https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010053141|title=Louvre entry|year=1744 }}</ref> It shows [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]] (top right with his eagle) ordering the eternal punishment of [[Prometheus]] (bottom left), which [[Vulcan (mythology)|Vulcan]] (bottom right) begins.<br />
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Since 1872 it has been in the collection of the [[Beaux-Arts de Paris]], in [[Paris]].<ref>{{in lang|fr}} {{cite web|url=https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/50510011304|title=Base Joconde entry}}</ref><br />
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