This painting by Pierre-Narcisse Guerin shows lovely Queen Dido, accompanied by her sister, meeting the warrior Aeneas and his son, Ascanius - or at least the boy whom they think is Ascanius (he is, in fact, Venus' son Cupid, disguised, who is going to make poor Dido fall in love with Aeneas).
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