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Mid- 17th century

Old Woman Picking Lice out of the Hair of a Girl

Jan Miele

Flemish, c. 1599 - 1663

Originally one of the Bamboccianti, the name given to a group of Northern European genre painters active in Rome, Miele eventually Italianized his art and became a fresco painter. This etching probably came from early in his Roman career, when he was still interested in typically Dutch subject matter.

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