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Stefano della Bella

Rébus on the subject of love, a riddle depicted on drapery, below a landscape with a pyramid and two obelisks, a bust of a sphinx at bottom, an oval composition

ca. 1637–42
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28.4 × 25.5 cm (11.2 × 10 in)

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