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Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Wenceslaus Hollar

Infant Hercules asleep

1625–77
Etching; third state of four, the plate is reduced in size in this state
15.3 × 12 cm (6 × 4.7 in)

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