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Jacob de Wit

Venus Trying to Retain Adonis

n.d.
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (discolored), over red chalk, on buff laid paper, pieced
10.2 × 8.2 cm (4 × 3.2 in)

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