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Peter Paul Rubens

Alcibiades Interrupting the Symposium; verso: Sketches of the Baptism of Christ and of a Man

ca. 1601–02 (recto); ca. 1601 (verso)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
26.7 × 36.7 cm (10.5 × 14.4 in)

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