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Adriaen van Ostade

Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage

1673
Pen and brown ink, watercolor, white heightening, over traces of graphite; framing lines by the artist (?) in pen and brown ink and gold
24.4 × 20.2 cm (9.6 × 8 in)

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