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    • The Nymph of Fontainebleau
    French (Fontainebleau) Painter, third quarter of 16th century
    Oil on wood

    26 x 47 3/4 in. (66 x 121.3 cm)
    Gift of Mrs. Heyward Cutting, 1942 (42.150.12)

    This work was painted after an engraving of a composition by Rosso Fiorentino (1494–1540) intended for the decoration of the Galerie François I in the château at Fontainebleau.

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  • Wardropper, Ian. "The Flowering of the French Renaissance." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 62, no. 1 (Summer, 2004).
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  • The Nymph of Fontainebleau
    French (Fontainebleau) Painter, third quarter of 16th century
    Oil on wood

    26 x 47 3/4 in. (66 x 121.3 cm)
    Gift of Mrs. Heyward Cutting, 1942 (42.150.12)