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Painting of winged old Father Time clutching a struggling naked infant Cupid while clipping his wings, with a skull and scyth

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A winged, bearded old man grips a struggling naked infant, cutting at its wings with a shears, while a scythe and a skull lie in the foreground.

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1640

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Wikimedia Commons

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Public domain

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