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are annoted twenty times on a sheet. There was also a version of a six-line verse but eventually he opted for a verse of three phrases. It is assumed he drafted the text in one day, as the ink on the sheet is of the same color. It was the first time
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text in a portrait. As with some of the later examples, the text is presented in combination with an image of a fig tree. Modern research with
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is to be seen. Through the analysis with infrared reflectography, the adaptions could be detected. On the right beside
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hanging from a tree in the left of the painting. Several of
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