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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

The Baptism of Christ (with Christ Half-Kneeling at Left, His Back Turned, and the Baptist Full-Faced at Center, Looking Up)

ca. 1770–90
Pen and brown ink, brown-gray wash
25.4 × 18.1 cm (10 × 7.1 in)

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