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Echo

1874

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The story

Hera punished the chattering nymph Echo for distracting her while Zeus's nymph companions slipped away, taking her voice so she could only repeat the last words spoken to her. In Ovid's telling it is Juno who casts the curse.

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Object details

Title: Echo
Artist: Alexandre Cabanel
Date: 1874
Culture: French
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Credit line: Image source The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access. License Public domain (Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true).
Object number: EFA.0488
Original image: 2047 × 3000 px
Source record: View on The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Alexandre Cabanel. Echo. 1874. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image source The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access. License Public domain (Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true). In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0488/