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Giacinto Gimignani

The Rape of the Sabines

1606–81
Pen and brown ink, brush and blue-gray wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk on beige paper; framing lines in pen and black ink
15.1 × 50.2 cm (5.9 × 19.8 in)

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