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The Death of Chione

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The Death of Chione is a 1622 painting by Nicolas Poussin, his first known surviving work. He produced it during a stay in Lyon and in February 2016 it was acquired by that city's Museum of Fine Arts. It shows the death of Chione, lover of both Hermes and Apollo - she had compared her beauty to that of Apollo's sister Artemis, who hunted her down and killed her (Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 11, lines 441-442).

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