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Claude Gillot|Jean Audran

The Marriage (Le Mariage): in a forest, an old satyr marries the betrothed in center, musicians to right, old satyrs with canes to the left, a couple consulting an old philosopher to left in the foreground, from 'The lives of satyrs' (La vie des satyres)

ca. 1700–1720
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26.2 × 34.2 cm (10.3 × 13.5 in)

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