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- Willem van Mieris (1662 - 1747)
- Paris and Oenone
- Netherlands
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- Date: 1698
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Image size: 12.5 x 18.6 cm
- Frame size: 29 x 35 cm
- Inv: P179
- Location: East Galleries III
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- Venus and Cupid and Paris and Oenone (P181) were painted as pendants. Paris, son of Priam, King of Troy, and his first love, the nymph Oenone, are depicted dallying in the shade of a tree upon which he had carved her name. She, in return, is about to reward his efforts with a crown of flowers.