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Bernard van Orley

Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid van Vianen

1530–35
Pen and brown ink, watercolor over traces of black chalk; verso: tracing in black chalk of the figures on the recto
35.6 × 48.3 cm (14 × 19 in)

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