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Mario Balassi

Study for a Three-Quarter-Length Portrait of a Gentleman (recto), Study of a Clothed Figure and a Foot (verso)

1605–67
Red chalk, highlighted with white gouache, on red-washed paper (recto); black chalk studies of drapery which is washed in blue (verso)
37.1 × 24.1 cm (14.6 × 9.5 in)

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