Even during his lifetime, much of European society assumed Frederick was homosexual. When Frederick was in Potsdam, he spent much of his time at Sanssouci with a circle that was exclusively male, and during Frederick's lifetime the phrase was used throughout Europe to describe homosexual courtiers. In addition, William Hogarth's painting "" may include a satirical depiction of Frederick as a flautist next to a mythological painting in which Zeus, in the form of an eagle, is abducting his male lover Ganymede – thereby publicly outing him as a homosexual as early as 1744.