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Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice, mid 17th century, (1943). In Greek mythology, the musician Orpheus (shown here with lyre) descended into the Underworld to bring his wife Eurydice back from the dead. Drawing in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. From "Europäische Handzeichnungen", (Five Hundred Years of European Drawings), by Bernhard Degenhart. [Atlantis-Verlag Berlin, Zürich, 1943] (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/The Print Collector)