Cabanel, a professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, specialized in portraits of "High Society." Here, he depicts the Swedish soprano <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Nilsson" class="extiw" title="w:Christine Nilsson">Christine Nilsson</a> as Pandora, the woman in Greek mythology who opened a forbidden box, releasing all the troubles that afflict humanity.
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