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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Boy with an Egg, Girl with a Hen, and a Watching Woman

1682–1754
Charcoal (?) and black chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on blue-gray paper faded to brown
39.7 × 52.7 cm (15.6 × 20.7 in)

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