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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

Aurora and Cephalus

c.1810
oil on canvas
22.8 × 16.8 cm (9 × 6.6 in)

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This myth subverts typical gender dynamics: usually a man captures a woman, but in this story the trope reversed.

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