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A.-L. Janet-Lange, La France éclairant le Monde (c. 1848). Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 59. Musée Carnavalet, Paris. Reproduced from Liberty: The French-American Statue in Art and History, Perennial Library, 1986, 81. Lange's painting shows France lighting the world while surrounded by the instruments of industrial and agricultural prosperity.