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Nude woman asleep under a flowering tree while a winged boy plays pipes in a spring meadow with birds.

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A reclining nude woman rests beneath a blossoming tree in a sunlit meadow, her head on her arm and her eyes closed. A winged youth in a straw hat stands at right, playing pipes, while birds scatter through the branches and grass.

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