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"Eugenia Martinez Vallejo, la Monstrua, vestida y desnuda" (called a monster) by Juan Carreno de Miranda, c. 1680 - El Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

During the XVIIth century, the Spanish court "had a taste" for the bizarre and "hereditary natural rarities". The subject is six years old. The grape leaves may signal ideas linking the subject with Bacchus.

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