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Cartouche with Two Women whose Bodies Terminate in Serpent Tails

Etching state iii or iv, Recueil de douze cartouches no. 5

Recueil de douze cartouches no. 5, Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Carl Joseph Ulmann 1927

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ca. 1646, 1641, 1651

Title: Cartouche with Two Women whose Bodies Terminate in Serpent Tails

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Etching state iii or iv, Recueil de douze cartouches no.

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