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Selene and Endymion. Cupido holding a burning torch shows Selene (or Diana) the sleeping Endymion. Behind her the moon shines through the clouds. Mantlepiece commissioned between 1678 and 1682 for the bedchamber of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_II_of_England" class="extiw" title="en:Mary II of England">Mary Stuart</a>, later queen of England, at the hunting lodge of her husband, William III of Orange, the present <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soestdijk_Palace" class="extiw" title="en:Soestdijk Palace">Soestdijk Palace</a>. For the two other surviving paintings by de Lairesse from this bedchamber, see <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gerard_de_Lairesse_001.jpg" title="File:Gerard de Lairesse 001.jpg">File:Gerard de Lairesse 001.jpg</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:G%C3%A9rard_de_Lairesse_-_Mercurius_gelast_Calypso_om_Odysseus_te_laten_vertrekken.jpg" title="File:Gérard de Lairesse - Mercurius gelast Calypso om Odysseus te laten vertrekken.jpg">File:Gérard de Lairesse - Mercurius gelast Calypso om Odysseus te laten vertrekken.jpg</a>.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Gerard_de_Lairesse" class="extiw" title="w:en:Gerard de Lairesse"><span title="painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands">Gerard de Lairesse</span></a>
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Circa 1680 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1680-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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