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Bernardino Rodriguez

Allegorical Figures: Force, Hercules Strangling the Hydra, Plenty, and Fame

1600–1650
Pen and brown ink, brush and reddish wash, traces of white gouache highlighting, over red chalk
10.8 × 14.7 cm (4.3 × 5.8 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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