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Pietro Monaco|Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Esau and his family parting ways with Jacob (Esau con le mogli figli e sostanze si separa dal fratello Giacobbe)

1743–63
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36 × 50.3 cm (14.2 × 19.8 in)

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