This beautiful painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot shows Orpheus leading his bride, Eurydice, out of the Underworld, returning her from the land of the dead to the land of the living. He is forbidden to look back - but as the sad story goes, he could not resist taking a backward glance, and so he lost his Eurydice forever.
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