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17th France

Poussin, Achilles Among the Lycomedes, detail, Richmond

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Poussin, Achilles Among the Lycomedes, detail, Richmond
Disguised as a woman by his mother and hidden among the ladies in waiting of a princess to prevent him from going to war, Achilles admires his feminine beauty in a mirror while a satyr statue smirks from the upper left (seen 2 slides later)
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