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François Boucher

Venus Commanding Vulcan to Make Arms for Aeneas

1767
Various brown chalks, with touches of brush and brown chalk wash, heightened with white chalk, on cream laid paper, prepared with a light brown wash ground, laid down on heavy buff laid paper
30.4 × 20.5 cm (12 × 8.1 in)

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