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Guido Reni|Flaminio Torre

Samson holding the jaw bone of an ass over his head and standing next to the Philistines he has just killed, more dead bodies in the background, a tapered composition with rounded top, after Reni

ca. 1640–60
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38.9 × 31 cm (15.3 × 12.2 in)

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