Virgil Reading the "Aeneid" to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia — Jean-Baptiste Wicar | DiscoverArt

Jean-Baptiste Wicar

Virgil Reading the "Aeneid" to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia

1790

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