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Venus and the Sphinx

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Tinted plaster
Rights: Public Domain
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Lita Annenberg Hazen Charitable Trust Gift in honor of Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg 1981
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Title: Venus and the Sphinx
Description:
Tinted plaster.

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