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Battista Franco

Six subjects after antique cameos: female figures tending to a seated male figure; putti and dolphins; female figure holding the reins of a pair of rearing horses; intertwined naked figures flanked by music-playing satyrs; triton with shield-bearing female figure; naked male figure seated on goat-headed sea creature

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25 × 19 cm (9.8 × 7.5 in)

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