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Claude Gillot|Jean Audran

The Funeral (Les Obseques): various satyrs gathered in a clearing, funeral pyre to left, a freshly dug grave and a tomb decorated with satyr heads and antlers in center, upon which musicians are seated, from 'The lives of satyrs' (La vie des satyres)

ca. 1700–1720
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26.4 × 35.1 cm (10.4 × 13.8 in)

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