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Perino del Vaga

Seated Church Father (Saint Augustine?) with Putti

n.d.
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
17 × 28 cm (6.7 × 11 in)

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