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Claude Gillot|Jean Audran

The Education (L'Education): in a forest, to right an old satyr instructor holding a wand, teaching a group of children, to the left a merchant of orvietan trying to attract spectators with his act, from 'The lives of satyrs' (La vie des satyres)

ca. 1700–1720
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26.2 × 34.5 cm (10.3 × 13.6 in)

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