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Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Boreas abducts Oreithyia, around 1615, oil on wood / oak © Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

A historical painting of a woman being carried away by a bearded man with wings. Her red and white clothes are torn from her body because she is trying to escape from him, so that she can be seen naked. Below them hover putti and follow the scene.
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), [em]Boreas abducts Oreithyia[/em], around 1615, oil on wood / oak © Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
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