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Bacchus with a vine-wrapped staff and a cupid beside a reclining sleeping woman on a rocky shore with the sea behind.

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A painting titled Bacchus and Ariadne by Angelica Kauffmann, dated 1794, shows the god Bacchus standing with a vine-wrapped thyrsus while a winged cupid tugs at a drape beside a sleeping Ariadne. The rocky shore and distant sea frame the classical figures in soft, warm light.

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1794

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Wikimedia Commons

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Public domain

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