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Joan and Cornelius Blaeu|Caspar Barlaeus|Claes Moeyaert|Pieter Nolpe

Plate 5a: Marie de Medici as Berecynthia, from Caspar Barlaeus, "Medicea Hospes"

1638
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29.6 × 38.7 cm (11.7 × 15.2 in)

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