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Title: Allegory of the Transience of Life
Artist:
Christian Richter (German, Altenburg ca. 1585/90–1667 Weimar)
Date: 1618
Medium: Pen and ink, brush and brown, blue and pink wash, heightened with white gouache
Dimensions: sheet: 5 x 5 15/16 in. (12.7 x 15.1 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2007
Accession Number: 2007.123
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