Social History of Art
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19th Realism & Academic
Rosa Bonheur, Family of Deer, 1865, Ringling Museum
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This detail of a doe drinking water recalls the famous metaphor of the drinking deer in Psalm 42 which appeared in European art from Byzantine mosaics to the Limbourg Brothers and 17th-century emblem books.
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