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Don Juan and Haydée or Byron in the arms of Greece, 19th century
oil on canvas
h 78x73 cm in frame h 86x81 cm
The painting is taken from a lithograph made by Alphonse Leon Noel (1807-1883) in the first half of the 19th century as an illustration of Lord Byron's Don Juan in which the poet himself is portrayed in the arms of the woman (an allegory of Greece).