Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées, c.1880 - Jean Béraud (1849 - 1936) ( lemmynsfw.com )
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Based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron (14th century), the painting depicts a scene from the first tale of day five; Iphigenia is sleeping in the woods and Cymon, a young nobleman, stands gazing at her beauty which fills him with inspiration. After seeing her, Cymon changes from a badly mannered lout to an ideal polymath.
Been thinking about this after someone posted a video to this community for the first time...