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Hercules and Omphale
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Pen and brown ink brush and brown wash over red chalk; squared in black chalk
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt 1880
Title: Hercules and Omphale
Description:
Pen and brown ink brush and brown wash over red chalk; squared in black chalk.
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