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Michel François Dandré-Bardon

An Allegory Comparing Music and Poetry

1740
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk and traces of black chalk, heightened with white gouache
54.5 × 40.2 cm (21.5 × 15.8 in)

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