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Nicolas Poussin

Drunken Silenus Satyr and Nymphs

n.d.
Brush and black and gray wash, heightened with lead white (discolored), over black chalk on tan laid paper, perimeter mounted on ivory wove paper
39.9 × 56 cm (15.7 × 22 in)

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