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Claude Mellan

Allegorical Subject: Nude Woman, Three Children and a Mousetrap (La Sourcière)

Engraving (burin and drypoint); second state of two (unfinished)
23.5 × 31.5 cm (9.3 × 12.4 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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