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The Dispatch-Bearer
View through The Met
Oil on wood
Rights: Public Domain
European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Bequest of Martha T. Fiske Collord in memory of her first husband Josiah M. Fiske 1908
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