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Pierre Mignard |Michel Corneille the Elder

Allegorical Figures for a Ceiling Decoration

17th century
Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on beige paper.
28.9 × 40.5 cm (11.4 × 15.9 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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