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ATTRIBUTED TO FRENCH SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY

Portrait of a Lady as Hebe

c.1750

RCIN 420545

Hebe, Greek goddess of youth and cup-bearer to the gods, holds a flask from which she has poured nectar into a cup on the right. Her father, Jupiter, is seen behind in the form of an eagle. Sitters often impersonate Hebe in French eighteenth-century portraiture, suggesting that they share the goddess’s youth and beauty.

First recorded in the Royal Collection in 1870


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