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Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Jupiter and Europa, c. 1636
Guido Reni
Italian, 1575
- 1642
oil on canvas
157.5 x 115.3 cm
Purchased 1991
National Gallery of Canada (no. 35939)
"The girl was sorely frightened, and looked back at the sands behind her ... and her fluttering garments floated in the breeze" (Ovid, Metamorphoses, book 2). Europa, Princess of Tyre, has innocently climbed on the back of a bull - Jupiter in disguise - only to be carried off to the island of Crete to bear him three sons. While using ravishing colours, Reni evokes this scene as it had been treated on classical cameos and mosaics.
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