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Charles Antoine Coypel|Laurent Cars

The Fabulist Truth (La Vérité Fabuliste)

1720–71
Etching
14.8 × 9.3 cm (5.8 × 3.7 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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