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Anton Raphael Mengs

Oedipus before the Temple of the Furies between his Daughters Antigone and Ismene

ca. 1760–61
Pen and brown ink, bown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite
19 × 22.3 cm (7.5 × 8.8 in)

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