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Poussin 1640 Warrior and Rhino

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Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665). Warrior on Rhinoceros. 1620-1640. pen and brush and brown wash, 229×147 mm. Hermitage Museum, Leningrad (at present, St-Petersburg), OP 8175. Entered the Hermitage in 1769; acquired from the Heinrich, count von Brühl collection in Dresden. See also Clarke, From Dürer to Stubbs, p. 92 fig. 65. This image has kindly been provided by Eduard Olegovich Heyfetz, hydrobiologist, scholar, writer, translator from/into several languages.

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