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Johannes Antiquus

A Woman at a Fountain by a Ruined Temple, the Farnese Hercules in the Background

1726–50
Black chalk, pen and gray ink, with gray wash; framing line in black ink
36.2 × 23.8 cm (14.3 × 9.4 in)

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