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Charlotte Mason Picture Study Aid Antoine Watteau

sans amant ou sans époux.” (“Come to the island of Cythera on a pilgrimage with us. A

maiden hardly ever returns from it without a lover or a husband.”)
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• Speculation exists that this painting is actually about the subjects leaving the island rather

than just arriving and the lack of emotion in the faces of the figures could suggest either joy
or melancholy.
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12 (Held and Posner)

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