Chariclea, an Ethiopian Princess, Reconciled with Her Parents, King and Queen of Ethiopia

1650 (?) (Baroque)

8.3 cm 10.5 cm

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Clariclea, a princess of Ethiopia who was miraculously born white to black parents and abandoned, here returns to Ethiopia and reconciles with her parents. The ancient Greek tale, virtually unknown today, was popular in France during the 1600s, not as a story about Africa but...

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Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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