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Plate 112: Agamemnon Sacrificing Iphigenia (Iphigenia Agamemnoni immolanda, à Diana (cerva eius in locum substituta) surripitur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

Antonio Tempesta
Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

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10.1 x 11.5 cm

51.501.3963

Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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