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Crispijn de Passe the Elder

God enters into a covenant with Noah: next to a smoking pyre Noah kneels in a gesture of prayer, surrounded by members of his family, a rainbow stretches over them, from "Liber Genesis"

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8.7 × 13.5 cm (3.4 × 5.3 in)

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