A pale, nearly nude young woman perches on a rock under a tree surrounded by small animals including dogs, deer, and birds, in this horizontal landscape painting. Her body faces us as, lips parted, she looks away to our left. She is covered only by an olive-green drape over her left thigh, on our right. She cradles what appears to be a tall stone tablet in her left arm and touches the inscribed surface with her right hand. White, buttercup-yellow, and crimson-red flowers crown her long blond hair. Her smooth pink skin stands out against the brown bark of the tree trunk behind her. By her…
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Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape

Dosso Dossi (Ferrarese, active 1512 - 1542)

c. 1525

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 100.8 × 136.1 cm (39 11/16 × 53 9/16 in.) ; framed: 129.2 × 164.5 × 10.16 cm (50 7/8 × 64 3/4 × 4 in.)
Culture
Ferrarese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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