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"omphale, Queen Of Lydia", Louis Desmarest, Late 19th Century.
"Omphale, queen of Lydia", large oil on canvas, signed lower left L.DESMAREST. Exhibition label with the number 114 on the canvas. Omphale, queen of Lydia, buys Hercules as a slave, then falls in love with him and marries him. In Ovid, she forces him to wear women's clothes to mock him, while she equips herself with the skin of the Nemean lion, and the club. Louis DESMAREST is known as a portrait painter, and it is with this genre that he exhibited one at the Salon of 1873. Pupil of Gosse, Barrias, Cambon, or even Jules Breton at the Beaux-Arts. French School. Bénézit, volume III, p.525. Very beautiful presence. 150x102 with the frame.
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