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Eurydice Bitten by a Serpent
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Pen and brown ink brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1957
Title: Eurydice Bitten by a Serpent
Description:
Pen and brown ink brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink.
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