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Virgil and the Muse of Poetry

c. 1800
Attributed to Angelica Kauffman (Swiss, 1741–1807) Attributed to Antonio Zucchi (Italian, 1726–1795)
One of the rare internationally known women artists of her time, Swiss-born Kauffmann enjoyed a successful career in London, Rome, Florence, and Naples, not only as a portraitist but also in the intellectually more demanding field of historical and mythological painting. This drawing shows the Roman national poet Virgil-whose pastoral poems the Bucolics refer to his own rustic roots-at his farm with his beehives in the background.

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