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Jacob Jordaens

Allegory of Fertility (Recto)

ca. 1640
Pen and brush and brown ink, watercolor, over traces of preliminary drawing in black chalk. Verso in black chalk.
23 × 20.3 cm (9.1 × 8 in)

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · verified July 2026

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