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Hunt of the wild boar of Calydon with a river god and nymph in the foreground at right, from a series of twenty-two plates depicting mythological subjects, plate 12

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Etching; first state of four (Préaud), Twenty-two plates depicting mythological subjects
Twenty-two plates depicting mythological subjects, Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1953
Title: Hunt of the wild boar of Calydon with a river god and nymph in the foreground at right, from a series of twenty-two plates depicting mythological subjects, plate 12
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Etching; first state of four (Préaud), Twenty-two plates depicting mythological subjects.

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