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Jupiter and Callisto (Boucher, 1759)

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Jupiter in the Guise of Diana and the Nymph Callisto
ArtistFrançois Boucher
Year1759
Dimensions57.79 cm × 69.85 cm (22.75 in × 27.50 in)
LocationNelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Jupiter and Callisto or The Nymph Callisto Seduced by Jupiter in the Guise of Diana is a 1759 oil painting on canvas by the French Rococo painter François Boucher, now in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, United States.

It shows Jupiter seducing Callisto whilst disguised as Diana.[1]

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  1. ^ Edward Strachan, Roy Bolton, Russia and Europa in the Nineteenth Century (2008), Sphinx Fine Arts. p. 86
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