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Painted lakeside landscape with a tall flowering agave, palm tree, grazing goats, resting dogs, and distant hills.

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A broad lakeside landscape shows a calm lake framed by wooded hills, with a tall flowering agave and a palm tree in the foreground. Goats, dogs, and a small group of figures rest on a grassy slope beside a path, while ruins appear on the left.

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1800

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