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Sketches of seven sculptures: The Four Seasons, Venus and Adonis, a Beggar, and Salmacis
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Pen and brown ink graphite
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Mrs. John De Witt Peltz 1977
Title: Sketches of seven sculptures: The Four Seasons, Venus and Adonis, a Beggar, and Salmacis
Description:
Pen and brown ink graphite.
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