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Jean Honoré Fragonard

Hercules and Cacus, after Annibale Carracci, and the Destruction of Enceladus, after Agostino Carracci

1761
Black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
20.4 × 29.3 cm (8 × 11.5 in)

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