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Grotesques: detail of the stucco reliefs decorating the Colosseum in Rome, with a winged figure hovering between two pairs of columns
Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus, ca. 1729
- Artist
- Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus (French, Paris 1692–1765 Paris)
- Date
- ca. 1729
- Medium
- Etching
- Size
- Plate: 13 3/16 × 9 7/16 in. (33.5 × 24 cm) Sheet: 20 13/16 × 15 5/16 in. (52.9 × 38.9 cm)
- Type
- Prints
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Licence
- Public domain: free to use, no permission needed
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