File:Sisyphus Pushing His Stone up a Mountain (486x640).jpg

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An innocent man who is condemned to death only to drop dead at the news he is free.

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English: Sisyphus pushing his stone up the mountain. Sisyphus is a major figure in Greek mythology. Eternally doomed to push a stone equal to his own weight up a mountain, only to watch it roll back down. Sisyphean has come to be known as a hopeless and unending task.
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Source Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
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Bernard Picart  (1673–1733)  wikidata:Q559929 s:en:Author:Bernard Picart
 
Bernard Picart
Alternative names
Bernard Picard; Bernard Picart (le Romain); B. Picart
Description French copper engraver and illustrator
Date of birth/death 11 June 1673 Edit this at Wikidata 8 May 1733 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Edit this at Wikidata Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1732 Edit this at Wikidata
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Java; Schermerhorn Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q559929

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