Lady Reading the Letters of Heloise and Abelard  

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Letters of Heloise and Abelard

Lady Reading the Letters of Heloise and Abelard[1] (c.1780) is an oil painting measuring 81 x 65 cm .

It was painted by French painter Auguste Bernard d'Agesci and its subject was a female reader swooning over the correspondence by Abelard and Heloise in the posthumously published Letters of Heloise and Abelard. Until 2001 the painting was attributed to Greuze



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