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Pietro da Cortona

The Triumph of Nature Over Art (design for an engraving of 'De Florum Cultura')

ca. 1633
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk
19.9 × 14.5 cm (7.8 × 5.7 in)

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