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Virgil Solis

Atalanta and Hippomemes, in the foreground Atalanta kneeling to pick up an apple and Hippomemes running with an apple in either hand, in the landscape background Atalanta running, from a series of four mythological scenes

ca. 1535–62
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5.9 × 9.1 cm (2.3 × 3.6 in)

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