Athenian beauty Cydippe writing a letter to Acontius. A girl writes sat in a chair with a lectern next to a curtained bed. The loves of Cydippe and Acontius. Les amours de Cydippe et d'Aconce. France, beginning of 16th century. From Letter XXI, Epitres d'Ovide traduites par Octavien de Saint-Gelais, Arsenal BLF 20, XVIe siecle. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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