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Pierre Brebiette

Frieze-like composition of figures walking alongside draped curtains: at left satyrs and children bear a statue of Bacchus on a litter behind an old man (Silenus?), at center two robed satyrs approach a priest, at right Apollo lifts a cup next to satyrs seated at a round table

ca. 1617–25
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8.3 × 37.4 cm (3.3 × 14.7 in)

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