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Claude Gillot|Jean Audran

The Birth (La Naissance): in a forest, the new mother resting in a hammock at center, the newborn below her to left, various satyrs and goats surrounding, from 'The lives of satyrs' (La vie des satyres)

ca. 1700–1720
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26.4 × 34.8 cm (10.4 × 13.7 in)

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