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Giorgio Ghisi|Francesco Primaticcio

Three Muses seated below a flying putto who grasps a lyre with both hands, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Gallery of Ulysses (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

ca. 1560–69
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29.2 × 16.9 cm (11.5 × 6.7 in)

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