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Mathieu-Ignace van Bree

Scene from Roman History, depicting a Youth receiving Armor from a Dying Man (Scipio Africanus and His Son?)

late 18th–mid 19th century
Pen and black ink, brush and black and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, black chalk
43.3 × 52.6 cm (17 × 20.7 in)

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