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An Allegory
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Oil on canvas
European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase R. A. Farnsworth Gift Gwynne Andrews Charles B. Curtis Rogers Marquand The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment and Victor Wilbour Memorial Funds 1970
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