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Hero and Leander

1625–26

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The story

Régnier took his subject from the Greek poet Musaeus. Leander swam the Hellespont every night to reach Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite at Sestos, until one stormy night he drowned, and Hero in her grief killed herself. Melbourne bought the canvas through the Felton Bequest in 1955.

Source, National Gallery of Victoria

Object details

Title: Hero and Leander
Artist: Nicolas Régnier
Date: 1625–26
Culture: Not recorded
Medium
Object type: Other
Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (3262-4)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0827
Original image: 1599 × 1153 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Nicolas Régnier. Hero and Leander. 1625–26. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (3262-4). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0827/