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Pierre Brebiette|François Langlois

Composition of figures arranged in a landscape foreground before a statue of a female goddess, at left two nude figures support a nude woman riding a goat led by a putto, at center a draped woman holds one finger to her eye behind a satyr holding a bow, at right Mercury twists away from the satyr, from a series of twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals, sacrifices, and dances

ca. 1617–25
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7.5 × 25.8 cm (3 × 10.2 in)

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