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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Female Allegorical Figure

ca. 1740–50
Oil on canvas, gold ground
81.3 × 63.2 cm (32 × 24.9 in)

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · verified July 2026

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