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Gerard de Lairesse

Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus

c. 1670
oil on canvas
91.4 × 113.7 cm (36 × 44.8 in)

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Calypso, reclining on her bed, looks at us with the same charming smile she used on Odysseus.

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