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Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Wenceslaus Hollar

Infant Hercules asleep

ca. 1639
Etching; third state of four, the plate is reduced in size in this state
14.9 × 11.9 cm (5.9 × 4.7 in)

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