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Sophia Blesendorf

The Rape of Ganymede

ca. 1694
Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash
8.3 × 7.5 cm (3.3 × 3 in)

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

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