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Hubert Robert

Plate 5: The Ancient Temple: a woman descending a staircase at left and giving alms to a beggar, a rotunda at right, from "Les soirées de Rome"

ca. 1763–64
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20.7 × 15.5 cm (8.1 × 6.1 in)

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