Auguste Renoir - Ode to flowers after Anacreon 1909

Ode to flowers after Anacreon 1909
Ode to flowers after Anacreon
1909 oil/canvas
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

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Anacreon ( c. 582 – c. 485 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets.