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Hubert Robert

Plate 3: The Statue Before the Ruins: a statue to left next to three figures on a pedestal, a beggar standing in an archway to right, four columns and the remains of an entablature to top left, from "Les soirées de Rome"

ca. 1763–64
Etching
13.7 × 9.8 cm (5.4 × 3.9 in)

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