Painting and Sculpture

Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe

Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe (French: Le grand prêtre Corésus se sacrifie pour sauver Callirhoé) is a large oil-on-canvas painting by the French Rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard, created in 1765. The painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1765 and earned Fragonard entry into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. It is now housed in the Louvre in Paris.

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• ▸Nymph and Shepherd
• ▸Frozen section procedure
• ▸John O. Wehrle

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