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Peter Paul Rubens

Herodias Receiving the Head of Saint John the Baptist

n.d.
Black chalk, with brush and black ink, and gray and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), on tan laid paper, laid down on blue laid paper
32.3 × 19.7 cm (12.7 × 7.8 in)

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