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Godfried Maes

Illustrations to the Metamorphoses of Ovid: Jupiter and Io (.1); Jupiter and Io, disguised as a white beifer (.2); Mercury Rescuing Io from Argus (.3)

late 17th century
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash
16.5 × 22 cm (6.5 × 8.7 in)

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