from Ovid's Metamorphoses IV. Spying on Hermaphroditus while he is bathing, the nymph Salmacis is filled with passion; later she captures him in her embrace and their bodies become one - half-male, half-female. This is one of a number of studio variants based on an original by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hermaphroditus_Salmacis_Albani_Louvre_INV19.jpg" title="File:Hermaphroditus Salmacis Albani Louvre INV19.jpg">Albani in the Louvre</a> and is especially close to an example in the Galleria Sabauda, Turin.
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