Arethusa, Benjamin West

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Arethusa

Benjamin West, 1802

Collection
High Museum of Art
Technique
Peinture
Représente
Aréthuse · femme · nudité · site de baignade · drapé · paysage · arbre · cours d'eau
Collectionneurs
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Arethusa is an 1802 history painting by the American-born British artist Benjamin West. It features a nude scene of Arethusa, a figure from Greek mythology. A nymph, she was the chaste attendant of the Goddess of Love Artemis. Inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses it shows her disturbed while bathing in a stream by the river god Alpheus. While he pursued her, she escaped by transforming herself into a fountain. She is shown with bright copper-coloured hair

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