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Venus and Cupid riding two sea monsters, Cupid raises an arrow in his right hand, two heads representing wind in the clouds above
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Engraving
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Burton Emmett 1929
Title: Venus and Cupid riding two sea monsters, Cupid raises an arrow in his right hand, two heads representing wind in the clouds above
Description:
Engraving.
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