The poetess Sappho in contemplation

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Louis Hector Leroux (French, 1829-1900)
The poetess Sappho in contemplation
signed '.Hector.LeROUX.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
65 x 34 cm.

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The poetess Sappho lived during the so-called Pre-Classical period in the early 6th century B.C., mostly in Mytilene, the capital of the Aeolic island Lesbos in the North-East Aegean. She is the best known poetess of ancient Greece and was praised in her time, as she is today, for the beauty and tenderness of her love lyrics.

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