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Karel Dujardin

Two mules bearing panniers and outfitted with blinders, plumes, and tassels; one mule in three-quarter view and behind it a mule in frontal view; beyond a man mounted on a horse directs mules with a rod

ca. 1641–78
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15.3 × 13.9 cm (6 × 5.5 in)

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