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Pietro Testa

The Garden of Venus who reclines in the centre before a term of Pan and surrounded by cupids

ca. 1631–37
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34.3 × 41.5 cm (13.5 × 16.3 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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