FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1720
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FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1720

已結束2011年11月29日

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GBP 875

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FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1720
A young lady as Atalanta, seated in a landscaped garden with water features, statues, trees and trellis, holding a golden apple in her right hand, her left arm resting next to a water fountain, wearing a décolleté ochre dress with a gem-set pin at corsage and at right shoulder, pink skirt and gem-set gold belt, a gold-bordered blue cloak draped over her right arm, pinned at right shoulder with gem-set brooch
on a thick piece of ivory
rectangular, 2 x 2 7/8 in. (50 x 72 mm.), gilt-metal frame with pierced foliate surround

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Atalanta, tired of advances by her suitors, declared that she would marry the man who could run faster than her. She outran all who challenged her except Hippomenes who won by following the advice of Aphrodite. During the race he dropped three golden apples to distract Atalanta and on winning the race, he took her hand in marriage.