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Stefano della Bella

A young boy holding a young leopard in his arms, the mother leopard laying below, from 'Ornaments or Grotesques' (Ornamenti o Grottesche)

ca. 1650–56
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16.4 × 6.2 cm (6.5 × 2.4 in)

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