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François Boucher

Frontispiece, from Nouveau Livre d'Academies Peintes a Rome par les Eleves de l'Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture (New Book of the Academy Painted in Rome by the Pupils of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture)

1759
Etching and engraving
30.7 × 42.8 cm (12.1 × 16.9 in)

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