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This canvas counts among the artists's earliest works, realized before he had completely mastered the technique of preparing the support with red ocher and oil. Too much of the latter undermined the adhesiveness of the paint surface, which has flaked off and exposed the ocher ground, now turned a brownish colour. Based on a composition by Rubens, the work evinces stunning virtuosity in the handling of the three nude bodies, their torsioned attitudes the fruit of long and close anatomical study.
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