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Antoine Couchet|Gillis Hendricx|Peter Paul Rubens

Time crowning Employment and punishing Idleness

ca. 1650–77
Engraving; second or third state of three (Hollstein)
42.3 × 33.8 cm (16.7 × 13.3 in)

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