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Oval painting of a winged-helmeted woman in white robes resting on a star-marked globe, gesturing toward a hazy landscape.

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An oval painting titled Invention by Angelica Kauffmann, dated 1741, shows a seated female figure in flowing white drapery and a golden cloak. She wears a winged helmet, rests one hand on a dark blue globe marked with stars, and gestures upward toward the sky above a distant hilly landscape.

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1741

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