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Sappho and Phaon is an 1809 neoclassical painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David of Cupid Sappho and her lover Phaon. It was commissioned by Prince Nikolai Yusupov for his Moika Palace and is now the only painting by David in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.Sappho is shown sitting in a chair at the foot of a bed in a classically decorated room with columns a marble floor and a view to a rural landscape outside (with Venus’s birds doves sitting on the doorstep).
