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Pieter de Jode II|Peter Paul Rubens|Gillis Hendricx

Allegory of Good Government, seated at center and being crowned by a putto and a woman at left, Justice standing atop a hydra at right

ca. 1640–74
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26.2 × 18.7 cm (10.3 × 7.4 in)

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