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Peter Paul Rubens|Cornelis Galle I|Anonymous

Pictura: allegory of painting, with a nude woman at center grinding pigments, two putti drawing at lower left

ca. 1610–50
Engraving; reverse copy
28.8 × 19.4 cm (11.3 × 7.6 in)

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