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Jean Jacques Lagrenée

Scène de Sacrifice (Antique Sacrifice), from Recueil de Différentes Compositions Frises et Ornements dessinées et gravées à la manière du lavis par La Grenée le Juene Se trouve chez l'Auteur, au Louvre et chez Basan, rue et Hôtel Serpente A Paris, in an album containing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger)

1784
Etching and aquatint
40.2 × 54.5 cm (15.8 × 21.5 in)

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